Cultural diversity in the British Middle Ages : archipelago, island, England / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

Other author Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionx, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.

SeriesNew Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm)) ^A505131
Contents Between diaspora and conquest : Norman assimilation in Marie de France's Esope and Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Reliquia : writing relics in Anglo-Norman Durham / Heather Blurton -- Cultural difference and the meaning of Latinity in Asser's Life of King Alfred / David Townsend -- Green children from another world, or, The archipelago in England / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Beyond British boundaries in the Historia regum Britanniae / Michael Wenthe -- Arthur's two bodies and the bare life of the archives / Kathleen Biddick -- The instructive other within : secularized Jews in the siege of Jerusalem / Randy P. Schiff -- Subversive histories : strategies of identity in Scottish historiography / Katherine H. Terrell -- Sleeping with an elephant : Wales and England in the Mabinogion / Jon Kenneth Williams -- Chaucer and the war of the maidens / John Ganim -- The signs and location of a flight (or return?) of time : the old English wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre / Eileen A. Joy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008003367
ISBN0230603262 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230603264 (alk. paper)