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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
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Outlaws in literature.
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1 online resource. |
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online resource cr |
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Defining Outlawry; Outlawry, Mobility, and the Middle Ages; Transgression and Conduct; The North Atlantic Sea of Islands; Texts and Dates; 1. Outlawry and Liminality in the North Atlantic; The Meaning of Wrecca; Itinerancy, Capital, and Power; The Role of the Outlaw; Outlawry in North Atlantic Literature and Practice; The Rite de Passage and Liminality; The Potential and Threat of the Liminal; 2. Imitating Exile in Early Medieval Ireland; Ailithre, Penance, and Punishment; The Desert Sea; The Concept of Conduct |
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The Immram, a Genre of ConductConduct and Obedience; 3. Lessons of Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England; Irish Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England?; Cynewulf and the Life as Journey; The Old English Physiologus and the Problem of Conduct; Discretio Spirituum; Pride and Hazardous Conduct; Discerning the Meaning of the Old English Physiologus; 4. The Transgressive Hero; Holy Wreccan; Guthlac of Crowland, Outlaw of God; The Intersection of Outlaw and Ascetic; Doxa and Transgression; Transgression and Aglæcan; Conduct and the Outlaw; 5. Cultural Exchange at the Boundaries of the Far North |
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Outlaws and TransculturalismEncountering Others in Norse Saga and Belief; The Finnar, the Norse, and those in Between; Cultural Conduct among the Gods; Conduct in the Far North; 6. Transgression in Transition after the Norman Conquest; A New Outlaw for a New Time; Hereward the Wake; The Fens as Transgressive Environment; The Abbey of Ely as Transgressive Space; Altering the Outlaw's Environment; Move Forward; Bibliography; Index |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9789048534593 (electronic bk.) |
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9048534593 (electronic bk.) |
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9789462984080 |
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9462984085 |
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