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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... journey's outset : Snédgus and MacRiagla leave their course for Iona and hand themselves to the mercy of the waves , and Mael Duin leaves initially on a journey of revenge ( see H. P. A. Oskamp , ed . , The Voyage of Mael Duin ...
... journey . What follows then is a lover's testament giving vent to years of suppressed emotions until Tristan reaches an insurmountable thought that forces him to place his trust in God as he had done in his journey of healing , or as ...
... journey and particular holidays are repeat- edly associated with the same locations . Margery's brief but eventful voyage echoes this principle of building the itinerary around the temporale : The sayd creatur [ Margery ] and hir ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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