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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... mare . [ The things which are naturally everybody's are : air , flowing water , the sea and the sea - shore . So nobody can be stopped from going on to the sea - shore . But he must keep away from houses , monuments and buildings ...
... mare is derived from amarum : ' Proprie autem mare appellatum eo quod aquae eius amarae sint ' [ But strictly speaking something is called sea ( mare ) because its waters are bitter ( amarus ) ] . 56 In his influential book , Symbole ...
... mare adiacens , the sea that is adjacent to his territory . He calls the sea not territorium but districtus.17 Only six years after Baldus's death , in 1406 , England's Henry IV refers to the sea in the same breath as dominions and ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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