Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 June 2022
- ISBN 9780198757566
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 220x135x10 mm
- Weight 262 g
- Language English 221
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Short description:
Provides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links between Englishness and the body in the texts and culture of this time.
MoreLong description:
The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment--climate, soil, landscape features, plants--and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.
The book is very learned, well-written, and full of thoughtful analyses of texts through which the author shows the ways in which the conceptualization of Englishness materialized in the early medieval period.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Materializing Englishness
The Workings of Soil in Early English Hagiography
Stones, Books, and the Place of History around A.D. 900
The Trans-Planted Politics of Eleventh-Century England
Beowulf and Ethnic Matters
Conclusion
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