The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages - Maritime Narratives, Identity and Culture (Hardcover)

Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English. Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with English identity in a British context. Ranging from the beginnings of insular literature to Victorian medievalisms, the subjects treated include King Arthur's struggle with muddy banks, the afterlife of Edgar's forged charters, Old English homilies and narratives of migration, Welsh and English ideas about Chester, Anglo-Norman views of the sea in the Vie de St Edmund and Waldef, post-Conquest cartography, The Book of Margery Kempe, the works of the Irish Stopford Brooke, and the making of an Anglo-British identity in Victorian Britain. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Contributors: Sebastian Sobecki, Winfried Rudolf, Fabienne Michelet, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Judith Weiss, Kathy Lavezzo, Alfred Hiatt, Jonathan Hsy, Chris Jones, Joanne Parker, David Wallace

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Sebastian I. Sobecki
Contributors:	Alfred Hiatt • Catherine A. M. Clarke • Chris Jones (ESRR Professor of English) • David Wallace (Contributor) • Fabienne Michelet (Contributor) • Joanne Parker (Contributor) • Jonathan Hsy (Contributor) • Judith Weiss • Kathy Lavezzo (Contributor)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-276-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	1-84384-276-9
Barcode:	9781843842767

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