Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534

by Kathy Lavezzo

"The 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 writers to see their homeland as not only barbarously divided but also blessed and united. Even as they acknowledged England as a barbarous wasteland... or as a site of brutal disorder..., the English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473098
• ISBN13: 9780801473098
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher