The Sea and Medieval English LiteratureD.S. Brewer, 2008 - 205 strán (strany) 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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... Christian preaching.52 Naturally , the sea of the world could only be braved by a ship that was built of the unsinkable wood taken from Christ's cross . This ship was the Church itself : ecclesia.53 Hugo Rahner's seminal analysis of ...
... Christian soul guided by faith as it sails over the sea of the wicked world – as well as the larger alle- gories of Christian life as a pilgrimage or journey - that the Brendan - voyage and many other westward voyages must be understood ...
... Christ's head , marks the farthest east , in oriente , and the beginning of the map , in principio . As Christ's body enacts the history of the ( Christian ) world , the eye of the beholder glides from top to bottom or from beginning to ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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