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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England

By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
0230603262, 9780230603264
LCC
DA125.A1 C83 2006
Open Library ID
OL10194810M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10957237 bytes)
Series
New Middle Ages
Edition
First Edition
Pages
252\253
Time added
2012-03-03 18:10:41

Description

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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