Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England by Cohen, J.

Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230603264)

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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England by Cohen, J.

Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England

$109.99
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England by Cohen, J.

Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the Normans of Sicily with the rulers of England, or Chaucer with legends arriving from Bohemia. It can also be seen in surprising places in literature, as when green children are discovered in twelfth-century Yorkshire or when Welsh animals begin to speak of the long history of their land s colonization. The contributors to this volume seek moments of cultural admixture and heterogeneity within texts that have often been assumed to belong to a single, national canon, discovering moments when familiar and bounded space erupt into unexpected diversity and infinite realms.

Author: J. Cohen
ISBN-10: 0230603262
ISBN-13: 9780230603264
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/12/2008 pg. 23
By J. Cohen
By J. Cohen
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JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Professor and Chair of English, The George Washington University, USA.

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