Mulligan A landscape of words

Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700–1250
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4111-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ‘place’ and developed a ‘spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulligan, Amy C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of an Irish spatial poetics
2 Place-making heroes and the storying of Ireland’s vernacular landscape
3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas Érenn and a national poetics of space
4 National pilgrims: travelling a sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick
5 English topographies of Ireland’s conquest and conversion
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy C. Mulligan is Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame