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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... Patience gain a theological dimen- sion : the sea , covering the abyss and assuming some of its hostile traits , is a place at the greatest possible distance from God ; it is the exile to which the demons have been banished ( Luke 8.31 ) ...
... Patience strengthens the association of the whale with the abyss , and therefore with Leviathan . In fact , the whale of Patience shares a number of features with Job's extensive description of Leviathan . For instance , the mouth of ...
... Patience appears to merge two traditions of the abyssus , the Augustinian , which places the abyss at the bottom of the sea , and Tertullian's view which locates it in the nether regions of the Earth.40 From whichever angle the abyss is ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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