Matthew Boyd Goldie,
Sebastian Sobecki
Springer Nature Switzerland
e druk, 2023
9783031464041
Our Sea of Islands
New Approaches to British Insularity in the Late Middle Ages
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Springer Nature Switzerland |
e druk, 2023
ISBN13: 9783031464041
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider possible paths to thinking about late-medieval archipelagism, and in doing so, highlight the inconsistencies and contradictions in medieval (and modern) conceptions of the region.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9783031464041
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer Nature Switzerland
Inhoudsopgave
1. Our Seas of Islands.- 2. The trouble with Britain.- 3.Britain and the sea of darkness: Islandology in al-Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-Mushtaq.- 4. From Pliny to Brexit: Spatial representation of the British Isles.- 5. Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape.- 6. Fictions of the Island: girdling the sea.- 7. The Bermuda assemblage: Toward a posthuman globalization.- 8. Afterword.- 9. Dynamic fluidity and wet ontology: Current work on the archipelagic North Sea.<br>