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The Sea and Medieval English Literature (Hardcover)
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The Sea and Medieval English Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
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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. SEBASTIAN I.
SOBECKI is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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