Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts (Paperback)

The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment-climate, soil, landscape features, plants-and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Textual Perspectives
Release date:	June 2022
Authors:	Jacqueline Fay
Dimensions:	220 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-875756-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-19-875756-5
Barcode:	9780198757566

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