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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... Perhaps Squatriti is too optimistic in his assessment of the level of economic and cultural activity in the Irish Sea , but his theory shifts the focus away from fragmentation and toward a network - centric model : Beyond the transport ...
... perhaps be a fundamental and insurmountable divide for mankind , which to overcome would mean hubris as well as a violation and defiling of the sea's holy purity . ] 11 Horace , Odes , 1. 3 , lines 21-4 . Both the text and the ...
... perhaps best rendered as ' mightily towards the end ' ] is visible above Christ's left foot , the quotation stresses the finality of this western end of the world ; at the same time , however , the use of an Advent antiphon to mark the ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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