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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... Latin and English . Can a specific view of the sea be associated with a partic- ular language ? One would expect ecclesiastical and early legal documents to be composed in Latin , for example . Religious writing in Latin was produced by ...
... Latin version of the legend prepared by Benedeit for Henry I's first wife , Queen Maud or Matilda , which he himself translated into French as the Voyage.3 As one of the more widely read poems of the pre - modern period , the Latin ...
... Latin Word - List offers as a translation of cete ( from c . 1200 the later Latin alternative to cetus ) the meaning ' whale ' and examples of the plural form coetia [ sea monsters ] from as early as c . 550.21 This is corrobo- rated by ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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