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Materializing Englishness Early Medieval Texts
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Materializing Englishness Early Medieval Texts
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Materializing Englishness Early Medieval Texts
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environmentclimate, soil, landscape features, plantsand the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.