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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... Tristan by Thomas of Britain expresses a similar sentiment after Tristan suffers a near - mortal wound during his clash with Morholt.31 Thomas's account of Tristan's duel with Morholt and Tris- tan's ensuing sea - voyage has been ...
... [ Tristan and Curvenal ] . ] 36 ' Sigldu ' [ they sailed ] in the Old Norse text , is clarified here further by Gott- fried , who adds that eight men accompanied Tristan and Curvenal . Further- more , the passages also correspond in their ...
... Tristan leaving on his own . This is his explicit wish : ' dâ wolde he eine inne sîn ' . In addition , the text implies that Tristan does not desire anything else but his harfin and his swert . In marked contrast to the Tristrams saga ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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