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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... ( Genesis 1.2 ) [ And the Earth was void and empty and darkness was over the face of the deep ; and the spirit of God moved over the waters ] . And although Genesis 1.1 introduces Heaven and Earth , the former is not shaped and named ...
... Genesis B , Adam is prepared to walk on the ocean floor if it allows him to make up for his transgression : þeah me on sæ wadan hete heofones god heonone nu þa , on flod faran ... ac ic to þam grunde genge , gif ic godes meahte willan ...
... Genesis B , in The Saxon Genesis , ed . A. N. Doane ( Madison , WI , 1991 ) Geoffrey of Monmouth , The History of the Kings of Britain , trans . Lewis Thorpe ( Harmondsworth , 1966 ) The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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