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Author Grossi, Joseph L., 1968- author.

Title Angles on a kingdom : East Anglian identities from Bede to Ælfric / Joseph Grossi
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages) : map
Contents Rædwald's unhappy realm : Bede's mixed views of East Anglian Imperium -- Æthelthryth in a virgin wilderness -- Solace for a client-king : Felix's Vita sancti Guthlaci -- Made in Wessex : Danish East Anglia and the Alfredian court -- Edmund, East Anglia, and England
Summary "From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region's recurring tensions with its neighbours--tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island's easternmost corner."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Joseph Grossi is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria
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Subject English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
English literature -- Old English
Literature
Kirchengeschichte
SUBJECT East Anglia (England) -- In literature
Subject England -- East Anglia
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
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