The Sea and Medieval English LiteratureD.S. Brewer, 2008 - 205 Seiten A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of a wide range of both insular and continental writings. |
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... Anglo - Saxons , and gradually brought this eco - cultural system to a slow demise , as we shall see.49 During the time of Irish cultural hegemony in the British Isles , principally in the seventh and earlier eighth centuries ...
... Anglo - Saxon and Middle English Poetry'.59 Even though his treatment of the sea lacks the formidable scope of ... Anglo - Saxons the sea was cold salt water ; yet it was also the se3l - rad . To Lazamon it is cold water and very little ...
... Anglo - Saxon England was not monolingual - after all , Latin was used by the Church - nor were the twelfth and thirteenth centuries necessarily governed by some kind of unchecked diffusion among the three languages of England . English ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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