Screen LibraryCultural diversity in the British Middle Ages
Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, contributors read England as a single and powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230614123 |
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Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, contributors read England as a single and powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. "This intriguing collection of essays sets out to trouble the myth of the English nation, calling into question the wholeness, autonomy, insularity, and inevitability of the political entity we now call the British Isles. Cohen's 'infinite realms project' recasts the island (the symbol of totality and autonomy) as an archipelago (a symbol of fragmentation and interdependence) whose current political configuration can in no way simply be read back into the past. The essays, on texts both familiar and arcane, not only invite us to rethink the textual canons of Great Britain's four main ethnic |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 252 p. |
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9780230603264 9780230614123 : 0230614124 : |
| CLC: | K01 |
| Contents: | Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in Marie de France's Esope and Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis - Suzanne Conklin Akbari * Reliquia: Writing Relics in Anglo-Norman Durham - Heather Blurton * Cultural Difference and the Meaning of Latinity in Asser's Life of King Alfred - David Townsend * Green Children from Another World, or The Archipelago in England - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen * Beyond British Boundaries in the Historia regum Britanniae - Michael Wenthe * Arthur's Two Bodies and the Bare Life of the Archives - Kathleen Biddick * The Instructive Other Within: Secularized |