Fay | Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts | Buch | 978-0-19-875757-3 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Oxford Textual Perspectives

Fay

Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts


Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-875757-3
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Oxford Textual Perspectives

ISBN: 978-0-19-875757-3
Verlag: Hurst & Co.


The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment--climate, soil, landscape features, plants--and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.

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Jacqueline Fay is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of articles on early medieval medical texts, historical works, and saints' lives, among other topics, and also associate editor for Old English and Old Norse of the five-volume Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature (2017) and co-editor of A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Her recent work concentrates on the relationship of the human and non-human in early medieval England, in particular re-reading the interactions between texts and plants, animals, and objects.



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