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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... Navigatio boasts over 120 extant manuscripts and has been translated into nearly all European vernaculars.4 Scholars of early Insular literature agree that the Navigatio either belongs 1 Some of the material here has appeared as ' From ...
... Navigatio . Once the pilgrims are nourished and refreshed , the writer informs us in passing that their stay on the island is lengthened by tres menses because ' tempestas in mari et uentis fortissimus et inequalitas aeris ' ( Chapter ...
... Navigatio ( ' Erant enim sicut greges iacentes in pascuis ' ) are transformed by the monks ' anguish into scene of activity : ' veum ... Peissuns tante guerre ' ( line 1048 ) [ such a confusion of fish ] .26 Where the writer of the ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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