Between diaspora and conquest : Norman assimilation in Marie de France's Esope and Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Reliquia : writing relics in Anglo-Norman Durham / Heather Blurton -- Cultural difference and the meaning of Latinity in Asser's Life of King Alfred / David Townsend -- Green children from another world, or, The archipelago in England / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Beyond British boundaries in the Historia regum Britanniae / Michael Wenthe -- Arthur's two bodies and the bare life of the archives / Kathleen Biddick -- The instructive other within : secularized Jews in the siege of Jerusalem / Randy P. Schiff -- Subversive histories : strategies of identity in Scottish historiography / Katherine Terrell -- Sleeping with an elephant : Wales and England in the Mabinogion / Jon Kenneth Williams -- Chaucer and the war of the maidens / John Ganim -- The signs and location of a flight (or return?) of time : the old English wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre / Eileen Joy
Summary
Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, contributors read England as a single and powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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