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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... political definition of Englishness as being of our Island ' are two very different fifteenth - century texts : the political poem The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye ( 1436/7 ) and John Capgrave's Liber de illustribus Henricis ( 1453 ) ...
... political theories began to conceive of the sea as an entity in their respective discourses . Legal theory and practice now widely acknowledge that the sea must be treated differently from dry land , although they share some properties ...
... political and economic dimension . To some extent , then , the Libelle offers a reorientation of politics away from the land and towards the sea , or , rather , towards an Insular ( and therefore English ) understanding of the sea as ...
Inhalt
Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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