Cultural diversity in the British Middle Ages
Subtitle: archipelago, island, England
By: [edited by] Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780230603264
Subjects: Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485; Great Britain -- In literature; Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between diaspora and conquest : Norman assimilation in Marie de France's Esope and Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis / Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: Reliquia : writing relics in Anglo-Norman Durham / Heather Blurton; title: Cultural difference and the meaning of Latinity in Asser's Life of King Alfred / David Townsend; title: Green children from another world, or, The archipelago in England / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: Beyond British boundaries in the Historia regum Britanniae / Michael Wenthe; title: Arthur's two bodies and the bare life of the archives / Kathleen Biddick; title: The instructive other within : secularized Jews in the siege of Jerusalem / Randy P. Schiff; title: Subversive histories : strategies of identity in Scottish historiography / Katherine Terrell; title: Sleeping with an elephant : Wales and England in the Mabinogion / Jon Kenneth Williams; title: Chaucer and the war of the maidens / John Ganim; title: The signs and location of a flight (or return?) of time : the old English wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre / Eileen Joy.