Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dla Nadii z Wysp
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Edgar’s Archipelago
- 2 The Spiritual Islescape of the Anglo-Saxons
- 3 Lost at Sea: Nautical Travels in the Old English Exodus, the Old English Andreas, and Accounts of the adventus Saxonum
- 4 Edges and Otherworlds: Imagining Tidal Spaces in Early Medieval Britain
- 5 East Anglia and the Sea in the Narratives of the Vie de St Edmund and Waldef
- 6 The Sea and Border Crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
- 7 ‘From Hulle to Cartage’: Maps, England, and the Sea
- 8 Lingua Franca: Overseas Travel and Language Contact in The Book of Margery Kempe
- 9 ‘Birthplace for the Poetry of the Sea-ruling Nation’: Stopford Brooke and Old English
- 10 Ruling the Waves: Saxons, Vikings, and the Sea in the Formation of an Anglo-British Identity in the Nineteenth Century
- Afterword: Sea, Island, Mud
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dla Nadii z Wysp
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Edgar’s Archipelago
- 2 The Spiritual Islescape of the Anglo-Saxons
- 3 Lost at Sea: Nautical Travels in the Old English Exodus, the Old English Andreas, and Accounts of the adventus Saxonum
- 4 Edges and Otherworlds: Imagining Tidal Spaces in Early Medieval Britain
- 5 East Anglia and the Sea in the Narratives of the Vie de St Edmund and Waldef
- 6 The Sea and Border Crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
- 7 ‘From Hulle to Cartage’: Maps, England, and the Sea
- 8 Lingua Franca: Overseas Travel and Language Contact in The Book of Margery Kempe
- 9 ‘Birthplace for the Poetry of the Sea-ruling Nation’: Stopford Brooke and Old English
- 10 Ruling the Waves: Saxons, Vikings, and the Sea in the Formation of an Anglo-British Identity in the Nineteenth Century
- Afterword: Sea, Island, Mud
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Sea and Englishness in the Middle AgesMaritime Narratives, Identity and Culture, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011