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Imagining Anglo-Saxon England - Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Hardcover)
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Imagining Anglo-Saxon England - Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Hardcover)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and
its depiction in art and writing. This book explores the ways in
which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a
placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and
literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their
modern scholarly and popular afterlives. It suggests that what came
to be called "Anglo-Saxon England" has always been an imaginary
place, an empty space into which ideas of what England was, or
should have been, or should be, have been inserted from the arrival
of peoples from the Continent in the fifth and sixth centuries to
the arrival of the self-named "alt-right" in the twenty-first. It
argues that the political and ideological violence that was a part
of the origins of England as a place and the English as a people
has never been fully acknowledged; instead, the island was
reimagined as a chosen land home to a chosen people, the gens
Anglorum. Unacknowledged violence, however, continued to haunt
English history and culture. Through her examination here of the
writings of Bede and King Alfred, the Franks Casket and the
illuminated Wonders of the East, and the texts collected together
to form the Beowulf manuscript, the author shows how this continues
to haunt "Anglo-Saxon Studies" as a discipline and Anglo-Saxonism
as an ideology, from the antiquarian studies of the sixteenth
century through to the nationalistic and racist violence of today.
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