Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvKaren Louise Jolly,Britton Elliott Brooks

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Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere.Early medieval England as seen through the lens of comparative and interconnected histories is the subject of this volume. Drawn from a range of disciplines, its chapters examine artistic, archaeological, literary, and historical artifacts, converging around the idea that the period may not only define itself, but is often defined from other perspectives, specifically here by modern scholarship.The first part considers the transmission of material culture across borders, while querying the possibilities and limits of comparative and transnational approaches, taking in the spread of bread wheat, the collapse of the art-historical "decorative" and "functional", and the unknowns about daily life in an early medieval English hall. The volume then moves on to reimagine the permeable boundaries of early medieval England, with perspectives from the Baltic, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, including an examination of Vercelli Homily VII (from John Chrysostom's Greek Homily XXIX), Hārūn ibn Yaḥyā's Arabic descriptions of Barṭīniyah ("Britain"), and an consideration of the Old English Orosius. The final chapters address the construction of and responses to "Anglo-Saxon" narratives, past and present: they look at early medieval England within a Eurasian perspective, the historical origins of racialized Anglo-Saxonism(s), and views from Oceania, comparing Hiberno-Saxon and Anglican Melanesian missions, as well as contemporary reactions to exhibitions of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Pacific Island cultures.Contributors: Debby Banham, Britton Elliott Brooks, Caitlin Green, Jane Hawkes, John Hines, Karen Louise Jolly, Kazutomo Karasawa, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, John D. Niles, Michael W. Scott, Jonathan Wilcox

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Utgivningsdatum2022-04-08
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt563 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnglo-Saxon Studies
Antal sidor272
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781783276868

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Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. DEBBY BANHAM is a tutor and special supervisor at Newnham College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England -- Karen Louise Jolly and Britton Elliott BrooksPart I Material Culture1 The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England -- Debby Banham2 Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art -- Jane Hawkes3 Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge -- Carol Neuman de Vegvar Part II Crossing Borders4 Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience -- Jonathan Wilcox 5 Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain -- Caitlin R. Green 6 Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World History -- John HinesPart III Origins and Comparisons7 Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective -- John D. Niles 8 Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered -- Kazutomo Karasawa 9 Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission -- Michael W. Scott 10 Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred -- Karen Louise Jolly