The Sea and Medieval English Literature

The Sea and Medieval English Literature
Author :
Publisher : DS Brewer
Total Pages : 234
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1843841371
ISBN-13 : 9781843841371
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sea and Medieval English Literature by : Sebastian I. Sobecki

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.

The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages

The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages
Author :
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781843842767
ISBN-13 : 1843842769
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages by : Sebastian I. Sobecki

Focuses on the literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago.

Greenery

Greenery
Author :
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 238
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0719072484
ISBN-13 : 9780719072482
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Greenery by : Gillian Rudd

Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman.

Medieval English Travel

Medieval English Travel
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 518
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198733782
ISBN-13 : 019873378X
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval English Travel by : Anthony Paul Bale

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'.

A Sea of Languages

A Sea of Languages
Author :
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 496
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781442663404
ISBN-13 : 1442663405
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sea of Languages by : Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.

Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England

Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 2503588883
ISBN-13 : 9782503588889
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England by : Daniel Anlezark

Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the natural landscapes, religious lives, cultural expressions, and physical needs of medieval women and men.00This volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to enlarge our understanding of the overlapping qualities of water in early England (c. 400 - c. 1100). Scholars from the fields of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and art history come together to approach water and its diverse cultural manifestations in the early Middle Ages. Individual essays include investigations of the agency of water and its inhabitants in Old English and Latin literature, divine and demonic waters, littoral landscapes of church archaeology and ritual, visual and aural properties of water, and human passage through water. As a whole, the volume addresses how water in the environment functioned on multiple levels, allowing us to examine the early medieval intersections between the earthly and heavenly, the physical and conceptual, and the material and textual within a single element.

Landscape in Middle English Romance

Landscape in Middle English Romance
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 542
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781108913096
ISBN-13 : 1108913091
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape in Middle English Romance by : Andrew M. Richmond

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
Author :
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 521
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780429588983
ISBN-13 : 0429588984
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature by : Raluca Radulescu

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume: Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture. Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts. This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 235
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781107180789
ISBN-13 : 1107180783
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature by : Candace Barrington

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

The Sea in the Literary Imagination

The Sea in the Literary Imagination
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781527524101
ISBN-13 : 1527524108
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sea in the Literary Imagination by : Ekaterina V. Kobeleva

This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.