The New Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England

Cohen, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-09-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230603264

DOI: 10.1057/9780230614123

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240