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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... century , a detailed , allegorical reading was already established as the following extract from a sermon by Achard , the Abbot of St Victor and later Bishop of Avranches ( c . 1100-72 ) , reveals : To cross that sea we must have a ship ...
... century writers read pre- Conquest works written in English ? ' Even where seemingly demonstrable continuities exist , such as the codicological activity in the twelfth century or alliteration ( albeit inflected by an exposure to much ...
... century ) and alluded to by Jonah's motionless ship trapped in a storm in the tenth- century Vercelli Homilies.83 To this one can also add the patristically inspired threatening presence of the sea in Creation narratives.84 Yet what ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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