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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... spiritual challenge to the sea - borne pilgrim . Doubt , fear , despair : all these ' vices ' are encountered by the peregrinus pro amore Dei . Since Christ fought one of his greatest spiritual battles against Satan's enticing in the ...
... spiritual aspects . At other instances , Benedeit defuses the exuberant spirituality that char- acterises the Navigatio - tradition . In the Latin poem Brendan's seven - year odyssey is structured by the liturgical year as all major ...
... spiritually , Jonah is drowning : ' circumdederunt me aquae usque ad animam abyssus vallavit me pelagus operuit caput meum ... spiritual confinement is complemented by his physical impris- onment in Patience . Unsurprisingly , the waters ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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