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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... storm at sea and a strong wind and changeable weather ] prevented them from departing sooner . On a larger scale , the fear of storms is part of the increased danger of the sea conveyed by the Voyage . It also removes the Anglo - Norman ...
... storm is derived from Wace's Roman de Brut , but , as Gesa Bonath convincingly shows in her edition of Thomas's Tristan , Wace provided only the scheme which Thomas varied.62 This storm is much closer to the one which 60 The Franklin's ...
... storm passages are discussed in Nicholas Jacobs , ' Alliterative Storms : A Topos in Middle English ' , Speculum 47 : 4 ( 1972 ) , 695–719 , passim . 12 The Tempest , ed . Anne Barton , The New Penguin Shakespeare ( Harmondsworth , 1968 ) ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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