Outlawry, liminality, and sanctity in the literature of the early medieval North Atlantic /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Early medieval North Atlantic ;
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Table of Contents:
- Outlawry, Mobility, and the Middle Ages
- Transgression and Conduct
- North Atlantic Sea of Islands
- Texts and Dates
- 1. Outlawry and Liminality in the North Atlantic
- Meaning of Wrecca
- Itinerancy, Capital, and Power
- Role of the Outlaw
- Outlawry in North Atlantic Literature and Practice
- Rite de Passage and Liminality
- Potential and Threat of the Liminal
- 2. Imitating Exile in Early Medieval Ireland
- Ailithre, Penance, and Punishment
- Desert Sea
- Concept of Conduct
- Immram, a Genre of Conduct
- Conduct and Obedience
- 3. Lessons of Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England
- Irish Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England?
- Cynewulf and the Life as Journey
- Old English Physiologus and the Problem of Conduct
- Discretio Spirituum
- Pride and Hazardous Conduct
- Discerning the Meaning of the Old English Physiologus
- 4. Transgressive Hero
- Holy Wreccan
- Guthlac of Crowland, Outlaw of God
- Intersection of Outlaw and Ascetic
- Doxa and Transgression
- Transgression and Aglœcan
- Conduct and the Outlaw
- 5. Cultural Exchange at the Boundaries of the Far North
- Outlaws and Transculturalism
- Encountering Others in Norse Saga and Belief
- Finnar, the Norse, and those in Between
- Cultural Conduct among the Gods
- Conduct in the Far North
- 6. Transgression in Transition after the Norman Conquest
- New Outlaw for a New Time
- Hereward the Wake
- Fens as Transgressive Environment
- Abbey of Ely as Transgressive Space
- Altering the Outlaw's Environment
- Move Forward.