Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic /

In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies' margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles-young adventurer, freedom fighter, and e...

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Autor principal: DeAngelo, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Outlaws in literature.
Literature, Medieval > Themes, motives.
Literature, Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Hors-la-loi dans la litterature.
Litterature medievale > Themes, motifs.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Defining Outlawry; Outlawry, Mobility, and the Middle Ages; Transgression and Conduct; The North Atlantic Sea of Islands; Texts and Dates; 1. Outlawry and Liminality in the North Atlantic; The Meaning of Wrecca; Itinerancy, Capital, and Power; The Role of the Outlaw; Outlawry in North Atlantic Literature and Practice; The Rite de Passage and Liminality; The Potential and Threat of the Liminal; 2. Imitating Exile in Early Medieval Ireland; Ailithre, Penance, and Punishment; The Desert Sea; The Concept of Conduct
  • The Immram, a Genre of ConductConduct and Obedience; 3. Lessons of Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England; Irish Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England?; Cynewulf and the Life as Journey; The Old English Physiologus and the Problem of Conduct; Discretio Spirituum; Pride and Hazardous Conduct; Discerning the Meaning of the Old English Physiologus; 4. The Transgressive Hero; Holy Wreccan; Guthlac of Crowland, Outlaw of God; The Intersection of Outlaw and Ascetic; Doxa and Transgression; Transgression and Aglaecan; Conduct and the Outlaw; 5. Cultural Exchange at the Boundaries of the Far North
  • Outlaws and TransculturalismEncountering Others in Norse Saga and Belief; The Finnar, the Norse, and those in Between; Cultural Conduct among the Gods; Conduct in the Far North; 6. Transgression in Transition after the Norman Conquest; A New Outlaw for a New Time; Hereward the Wake; The Fens as Transgressive Environment; The Abbey of Ely as Transgressive Space; Altering the Outlaw's Environment; Move Forward; Bibliography; Index

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