The Maritime World of the Anglo-Saxons / edited by Stacy S. Klein, William Schipper, Shannon Lewis-Simpson

Published:: Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014.
Physical Description:: xiv, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Klein, Stacy S., 1967-, Schipper, William V., and Lewis-Simpson, Shannon

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Machine generated contents note: Navigating the Anglo-Saxon Seas / Stacy S. Klein -- On the Sea: Travel -- Travels on the Sea and in the Mind / Martin Carver -- Overseeing the Sea: Some West Saxon Responses to Waterborne Threats in the South-East / Stuart Brookes -- Herimum in mari: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Peregrinatio and the Ideal of a Desert in the Sea / Juliet Mullins -- Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Long-Haul Travelers: Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Beyond / David A. E. Pelteret -- "... Velis vento plenis ...": Sea Crossings in the Bayeux Tapestry / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- About the Sea: Literature -- Be mihtigum mannum: Power, Penance, and Food in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Allen J. Frantzen -- Demons of the Water: Anglo-Saxon Responses to the Gerasene Demoniac / Peter Dendle -- Beowulf and the Sea: An Ecofeminist Reading / Heide Estes -- Scip: A Proposed Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 95 / Karl Persson -- Verbal Seascapes in Anglo-Saxon Verse / Phyllis Portnoy -- From the Sea: Whales -- "King of the Children of Pride": Symbolism, Physicality, and the Old English Whale / Karolin Esser-Miles -- Ælfric's Fisherman and the Hronrad: A Colloquy on the Occupation / Haruko Momma -- Hronæs ban: Exoticism and Prestige in Anglo-Saxon Material Culture / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Whale / Ian Riddler.

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9780866984966 (acid-free paper)
0866984968 (acid-free paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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