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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages

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von Cohen, J.   (Autor)

Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the Normans of Sicily with the rulers of England, or Chaucer with legends arriving from Bohemia. It can also be seen in surprising places in literature, as when green children are discovered in twelfth-century Yorkshire or when Welsh animals begin to speak of the long history of their land s colonization. The contributors to this volume seek moments of cultural admixture and heterogeneity within texts that have often been assumed to belong to a single, national canon, discovering moments when familiar and bounded space erupt into unexpected diversity and infinite realms.

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Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the Normans of Sicily with the rulers of England, or Chaucer with legends arriving from Bohemia. It can also be seen in surprising places in literature, as when green children are discovered in twelfth-century Yorkshire or when Welsh animals begin to speak of the long history of their land s colonization. The contributors to this volume seek moments of cultural admixture and heterogeneity within texts that have often been assumed to belong to a single, national canon, discovering moments when familiar and bounded space erupt into unexpected diversity and infinite realms. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in Marie de France's Esope and Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis; S. Conklin Akbari Reliquia : Writing Relics in Anglo-Norman Durham; H. Blurton Cultural Difference and the Meaning of Latinity in Asser's Life of King Alfred; D. Townsend Green Children from Another World, or The Archipelago in England; J. J. Cohen Beyond British Boundaries in the Historia regum Britanniae ; M. Wenthe Arthur's Two Bodies and the Bare Life of the Archives; K. Biddick The Instructive Other Within: Secularized Jews in The Siege of Jerusalem; R. P. Schiff Subversive Histories: Strategies of Identity in Scottish Historiography; K. Terrell Sleeping with an Elephant: Wales and England in the Mabinogion; J. K. Williams Chaucer and the War of the Maidens; J. Ganim The Signs and Location of a Flight (or Return?) of Time: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre; E. Joy 

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"The eleven essays brought together in this volume bring those neighboring realms into breath-taking focus by examining currents of cultural difference lapping onto the edges and sometimes percolating up into the middle of texts that ostensibly serve to delineate England as an always inevitable island unto itself...this collection will serve as an indispensable guide to future travelers in archipelago it so brilliantly reveals." - Journal of the Early Book Society

"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 groups, but more radically to interrogate the fictiveness of political identity itself. This is not just another collection touting cultural diversity among hypostasized identities; these essays invite us to reimagine political collectivities, rethinking the ways in which they encounter one another, clash, assimilate, and reform around new identities." - Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College and co-author of King Arthur andthe Myth of History 

Autoreninfo

JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Professor and Chair of English, The George Washington University, USA. 

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Medium: Buch
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Seiten: 256
Sprache: Englisch
Erschienen: September 2008
Auflage: 1st edition 2008
Sonstiges: .978-1-349-37158-7
Maße: 216 x 140 mm
Gewicht: 327 g
ISBN-10: 1349371580
ISBN-13: 9781349371587

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