UID:
edocfu_9960118841902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-08007-5
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9786612080074
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1-84615-403-0
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval romance,
Content:
As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important in the construction of a post-Conquest English society that was both aware of, and placed great stock in, its Anglo-Saxon heritage; yet its depiction in post-Conquest literature has been very little studied. This book examines a wide range of sources (legal and historiographical as well as literary) in order to reveal a 'social construction' of Anglo-Saxon England that held a significant place in the literary and cultural imagination of the post-Conquest English. Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that they show a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century 'Proverbs of Alfred', to the institutional interest in the 'Guy of Warwick' narrative exhibited by the community of St. Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature. Dr ROBERT ALLLEN ROUSE teaches in the Department of English, University of British Columbia.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Anglo-Saxonism: The Remembrance and Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past -- Remembering Alfred in the Twelfth Century -- The Romance of the Anglo-Saxon Past -- The Romance of English Identity -- In his time were gode lawes: Romance and the English Legal Past -- Literary Terrains and Textual Landscapes: The Importance of the Anglo-Saxon Past in Late-Medieval Winchester.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-041-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846154034
