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Angels on the Edge of the World - Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 (Paperback)
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Angels on the Edge of the World - Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 (Paperback)
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"The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness
offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to
construct national identity. . . . Above all, the wonderful aspects
of geographic otherness made it possible for English writers to see
their homeland as not only barbarously divided but also blessed and
united. Even as they acknowledged England as a barbarous wasteland
. . . or as a site of brutal disorder . . ., the English also
imagined England as a holy wilderness or as a blessed isle." from
the IntroductionIn a view that sweeps from the tenth century to the
mid-sixteenth century, Kathy Lavezzo shows how the English people's
concern with their island's relative isolation on the global map
contributed to the emergence of a distinctive English national
consciousness in which marginality came to be seen as a virtue.
Lavezzo examines the many world maps and textual geographies
produced by the English during these years. In a beautifully
illustrated book, she argues that the English looked to the globe
only to emphasize and, in time, to exalt their own exceptional
geographic status. The author charts this process by examining a
series of wondrous maps and canonical texts. Demonstrating how
medieval geographic notions conditioned English attitudes toward
Rome, clarifying the complicated religious history leading up to
Henry the Eighth's divorce and the Reformation, Angels on the Edge
of the World straddles the subjects and methods of literature,
history, and cultural geography. It will be of special interest to
those readers who use cartography as a way to map cultural
identities."
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