The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages - 9781843842767

The Sea and Englishness in the Middle AgesMaritime Narratives, Identity and Culture\nAuthor(s): Sebastian Sobecki, Alfred Hiatt, Catherine A M Clarke, Chris Jones, David Wallace, Fabienne Michelet, Joanne Parker, Jonathan Hsy, Judith Weiss, Kathy Lavezzo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843842767, 978-1843842767\nSynopsis\nEssays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English.\n\nLocal and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with English identity in a British context. Ranging from the beginnings of insular literature to Victorian medievalisms, the subjects treated ine