Description: Sea and Medieval English Literature, Hardcover by Sobecki, Sebastian I., ISBN 1843841371, ISBN-13 9781843841371, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, Th 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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Book Title: Sea and Medieval English Literature
Number of Pages: 218 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Sea and Medieval English Literature
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Medieval
Publication Year: 2007
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Sebastian Sobecki
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance Ser.
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
