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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... renders anything nearly as comprehensive in the degree of its destruction as the flood of October 1250 : Visum est etiam sub opaca nocte ipsum fretum quasi accensum ardere , et fluctus fluctibus conglomeratos dimicare , ita ut non ...
... renders the sea an area under someone's authority and supervision without sharing all the properties of a territory . It seals the sea's attachment to land , making it a territorial and , if needs be , administrative appendix to land ...
... renders him Emperor over islands , i.e. territories , in the sea and over other rulers who are merely ' kings ' . However , Fulton observes that this preamble to the charter may not be authentic , and , at any rate , the claim limits ...
Inhalt
Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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