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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... Voyage de Saint Brandan1 Benedet's Saimhe anonymous Latin Navigatio Sancti Brendani enedeit's Voyage de Saint Brandan ( c . 1118 ) has often been unjustly Abbatis ( eighth century ) .2 It cannot be readily assumed that Benedeit's ...
... voyage to God , and let us put our oars into our boat . ' And thereafter their voyage was left alone , and their oars were put into their boat . ] 29 In a similar fashion , in the Immram curaig Ua Corra the bishop aboard the boat of the ...
... Voyage . However , the German poet may have had access to one of the Continental copies of the Navigatio with which his setting adrift episode shares the parallel of abandoning the oars . In fact , Eilhart's version can be seamlessly ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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