The Sea and Medieval English Literature 1st edition by Sebastian Sobecki ISBN 1843841371 9781843841371

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ISBN 10:       1843841371
ISBN 13: 978-1843841371
Author:        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 Medieval English Literature 1st  Table of contents:

1. Traditions

• Classical Readings of the Sea
• From the Bible to the Fathers
• A Note on English Writings before the Conquest

2. Deserts and Forests in the Ocean

• The End of the Désert Liquide: Benedeit’s Voyage de Saint Brandan
• Tristan’s Bitter Sea of Romance

3. Almost Beyond the World

• Britain at the ‘Laste Clif of Occean’
• Burning Seas in the Chronicles of Matthew Paris

4. Realms in Abeyance

• The Matter of England: Land, Sea, and Identity in the Horn Legend
• The Kyndness of Strangers in Gower’s Tale of Apollonius

5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

• A Cold Embrace: Jonah in the Belly of the Whale
• Margery’s Flight to Dansk

6. A Thousand Furlongs of Sea

• Territorial Waters: The Origin of a Contradiction
• England Reaches for the Sea: The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye

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