Writing the world in early medieval England / Nicole Guenther Discenza, Heide Estes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Discenza, Nicole Guenther, 1969- author.

Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth), author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in England in the arely medieval world 2632-203X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Travel in literature.

Geography in literature.

National characteristics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated themselves firmly within Christian Europe. They drew many ideas from textual sources and filled out their conceptions from their own travels and interactions with visitors. Chronicles, histories, poetry, homilies, saints' lives, and occasionally maps tell of peoples and lands from the British Isles to their near neighbors in Scandinavia to such distant places as Jerusalem, North Africa, and India. They also imagined geographies that veered into the fantastic and vividly depicted hell, purgatory, and heaven. This Element provides insights about early medieval English who were engaged deeply in a variety of modes with other parts of their world. Both the connections and the divisions they constructed still have impact today.

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ISBN:

9781108943147 (ebook)

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