Angles on a Kingdom : East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric /
Grossi, Joseph
Angles on a Kingdom : East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric / Joseph Grossi. - 1 online resource (400 p.) : 1 b&w map
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Rædwald’s Unhappy Realm: Bede’s Mixed Views of East Anglian Imperium -- 2 Æthelthryth in a Virgin Wilderness -- 3 Solace for a Client-King: Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci -- 4 Made in Wessex: Danish East Anglia and the Alfredian Court -- 5 Edmund, East Anglia, and England -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region’s recurring tensions with its neighbours – tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island’s easternmost corner.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487505738 9781487532567
10.3138/9781487532567 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English--Ethnic identity--Early works to 1800.--England--East Anglia
National characteristics, English, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Aelfric. Anglo-Latin literature. Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Bede. East Anglia. Felix. Old English literature. St. Edmund. St. Etheldreda. St. Guthlac. medieval literature. regional identity.
PR173 / .G76 2021
829/.09
Angles on a Kingdom : East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric / Joseph Grossi. - 1 online resource (400 p.) : 1 b&w map
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Rædwald’s Unhappy Realm: Bede’s Mixed Views of East Anglian Imperium -- 2 Æthelthryth in a Virgin Wilderness -- 3 Solace for a Client-King: Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci -- 4 Made in Wessex: Danish East Anglia and the Alfredian Court -- 5 Edmund, East Anglia, and England -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region’s recurring tensions with its neighbours – tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island’s easternmost corner.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487505738 9781487532567
10.3138/9781487532567 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English--Ethnic identity--Early works to 1800.--England--East Anglia
National characteristics, English, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Aelfric. Anglo-Latin literature. Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Bede. East Anglia. Felix. Old English literature. St. Edmund. St. Etheldreda. St. Guthlac. medieval literature. regional identity.
PR173 / .G76 2021
829/.09