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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... discussion of the ninth - century Genesis A , Paul Battles takes it for granted that the sea invites 83 See Michelet , Creation , Migration and Conquest , p . 59 ( for Christ II ) , and Paul E. Szarmach , ' The Vercelli Homilies : Style ...
... discussion of the custom of setting people adrift in ( often unseaworthy ) boats ( " Setting Adrift in Medieval Law and Literature ' , PMLA 56 ( 1941 ) , 33–68 ) , identifies a second category that would be appropriate for Tristan's ...
... discussion of the Libelle.24 It has been argued that the Libelle is driven by mercantile interests which , when forming the basis of a nationally coordinated policy towards the sea , often diverge sharply from the interests of the ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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