The sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages : maritime narratives, identity and culture / edited by Sebastian I. Sobecki.
Focuses on the literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago.
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Edgar's archipelago
- 2. The spiritual islescape of the Anglo-Saxons
- 3. Lost at sea: nautical travels in the old english Exodus, the old english Andreas, and Accounts of the adventus Saxonum
- 4. Edges and otherworlds: imagining tidal spaces in early medieval
- 5. East Anglia and the sea in the narratives of the Vie de St Edmund and Waldef
- 6. The sea and border crossings in the alliterative Morte Arthure
- 7. 'From Hulle to Cartage' : maps, England, and the sea
- 8. Lingua Franca: overseas travel and language contact in The Book of Margery Kempe
- 9. 'Birthplace for the poetry of the sea-ruling nation' : Stopford Brooke and old english
- 10. Ruling the waves: Saxons, Vikings, and the sea in the formation of an Anglo-British identity in the nineteenth century.