Northern memories and the English Middle Ages (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Tim William Machan

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Celtic fringe and overseas colonies, Scandinavia became one of the external reference points for the forging of the United Kingdom. Subject to the continual refashioning of memory, the region became at once an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status, rendering trips there rides on a time machine.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
The spectacle of history
Modern travel, medieval places
Ethnography and heritage
An open-air museum
Stories that make things real
Narrative, memory, meaning
Bibliography
Index

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