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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... lines : ' En ses nefs est entrez , oret ad e bon vent . / Ore le cunduie Deus , li reis omnipotent ! ' [ He embarked , and they had good breezes and wind . Now God , the Lord Almighty , guide them ! ] ( lines 5,028–9 ) . The text ...
... ( lines 631-4 ) What these lines suggest is that the inhabitants of Westernesse , Horn's first exile , are ' londisse ' men like those dwelling in his native Suddene . As landish men , the Christians , then , share among them the values ...
... ( lines 81–2 ) . He trembles at God's apparent intentions : ' Bot if me gaynlych God such gref to me wolde , / For desert of sum sake þat I slayn were ' ( lines 83– 4 ) .3 Much of the acerbity of Jonah's tone hinges on the conjunction ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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