Angels on the Edge of the World

ÒThe various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity. . . . Above all, the wonderful aspects of geographic otherness made it possible for English wr

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: Modern Motherland and Ancient Otherworld

1

(26)

Another Country: Aelfric and the Production of English Identity

27

(19)

Gerald de Barri and the Geography of Ireland's Conquest

46

(25)

Locating England in the Polychronicon

71

(22)

Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in the Man of Law's Tale

93

(21)

``From the very ends of the earth'': Medieval Geography and Wolsey's Processions

114

(31)

Notes

145

(40)

Index

185

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Angels on the Edge of the World

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