Angels on the edge of the world
Subtitle: geography, literature, and English community, 1000-1534
By: Kathy Lavezzo.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801444296
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; Geography, Medieval, in literature.; Geography, Medieval -- England.; Nationalism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modern motherland and ancient otherworld; title: Another country : Ælfric and the production of English identity; title: Gerald de Barri and the geography of Ireland's conquest; title: Ad speciem specialissima : locating England in the Polychronicon; title: Beyond Rome : mapping gender and justice in the Man of Law's tale; title: "From the very ends of the earth" : medieval geography and Wolsey's processions.