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"The eleven essays brought together in this volume bring those neighboring realms into breath-taking focus by examining currents of cultural difference lapping onto the edges and sometimes percolating up into the middle of texts that ostensibly serve to delineate England as an always inevitable island unto itself...this collection will serve as an indispensable guide to future travelers in archipelago it so brilliantly reveals." - Journal of the Early Book Society
"This intriguing collection of essays sets out to trouble the myth of the English nation, calling into question the wholeness, autonomy, insularity, and inevitability of the political entity we now call the British Isles. Cohen s infinite realms project recasts the island (the symbol of totality and autonomy) as an archipelago (a symbol of fragmentation and interdependence) whose current political configuration can in no way simply be read back into the past. The essays, on texts both familiar and arcane, not only invite us to rethink the textual canons of Great Britain s four main ethnic groups, but more radically to interrogate the fictiveness of political identity itself. This is not just another collection touting cultural diversity among hypostasized identities; these essays invite us to reimagine political collectivities, rethinking the ways in which they encounter one another, clash, assimilate, and reform around new identities." - Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College and co-author of King Arthur andthe Myth of History
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Book Title: Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages
Book Subtitle: Archipelago, Island, England
Editors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614123
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60326-4Published: 19 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37158-7Published: 19 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61412-3Published: 04 August 2008
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Britain and Ireland, Medieval Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History