Angles on a Kingdom : East Anglian Identities from Bede To Ælfric / Joseph Grossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossi, Joseph L., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

National characteristics, English, in literature.

East Anglia (England)--In literature.

East Anglia (England).

East Anglia (England)--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Bede.

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Bede, the Venerable, Saint).

Genre:

Early works

Church history

Biographies

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and AElfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region's recurring tensions with its neighbours--tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island's easternmost corner."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Raedwald's unhappy realm : Bede's mixed views of East Anglian Imperium

AEthelthryth in a virgin wilderness

Solace for a client-king : Felix's Vita sancti Guthlaci

Made in Wessex : Danish East Anglia and the Alfredian court

Edmund, East Anglia, and England.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4875-3256-3

1-4875-3257-1

OCLC:

1237821777