Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature

H. Blurton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-7443-3 (ISBN)

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This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.

HEATHER BLURTON is a lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of York, UK.

Cannibal Narratives Selfeaters: The Cannibal Narrative of Andreas Eotonweard: Watching for Cannibals in the Beowulf-manuscript Cannibal Kings: Communion and Community in Twelfth-Century England Tartars and Traitors: The Uses of Cannibalism in Matthew Paris's Chronica majora The Flesch of a Sarazeyn: Cannibalism, Genre and Nationalism

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	XI, 202 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4039-7443-8 / 1403974438
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-7443-3 / 9781403974433
Zustand	Neuware