Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic
In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages, however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies' margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles: young adventurer, freedom fighter, and...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
Amsterdam University Press
2018
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9789048534593 |
id |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/9789048534593 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/9789048534593 2024-06-09T07:47:09+00:00 Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic DeAngelo, Jeremy 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9789048534593 unknown Amsterdam University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9789048534593 monograph 2018 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048534593 2024-05-15T13:00:12Z In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages, however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies' margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles: young adventurer, freedom fighter, and even saint. Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic examines the development of the literary outlaw in the early Middle Ages, when traditions drawn from Anglo-Saxon England, early Christian Ireland, and Viking Age Iceland informed a generous view of itinerant criminality and facilitated the application of outlaw tropes to moral questions of conduct in both secular and religious life. Taken together, the traditions of the North Atlantic archipelago reveal a world of interconnected cultures with an expansive view of movement across boundaries both literal and conceptual, capable of finding value in unlikely places and countenancing the challenges presented by such discoveries. Book Iceland North Atlantic Cambridge University Press |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Cambridge University Press |
op_collection_id |
crcambridgeupr |
language |
unknown |
description |
In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages, however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies' margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles: young adventurer, freedom fighter, and even saint. Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic examines the development of the literary outlaw in the early Middle Ages, when traditions drawn from Anglo-Saxon England, early Christian Ireland, and Viking Age Iceland informed a generous view of itinerant criminality and facilitated the application of outlaw tropes to moral questions of conduct in both secular and religious life. Taken together, the traditions of the North Atlantic archipelago reveal a world of interconnected cultures with an expansive view of movement across boundaries both literal and conceptual, capable of finding value in unlikely places and countenancing the challenges presented by such discoveries. |
format |
Book |
author |
DeAngelo, Jeremy |
spellingShingle |
DeAngelo, Jeremy Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
author_facet |
DeAngelo, Jeremy |
author_sort |
DeAngelo, Jeremy |
title |
Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
title_short |
Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
title_full |
Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
title_fullStr |
Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
title_full_unstemmed |
Outlawry Liminality and Sanctity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic |
title_sort |
outlawry liminality and sanctity in the early medieval north atlantic |
publisher |
Amsterdam University Press |
publishDate |
2018 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9789048534593 |
genre |
Iceland North Atlantic |
genre_facet |
Iceland North Atlantic |
op_source |
ISBN 9789048534593 |
op_rights |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048534593 |
_version_ |
1801378081845280768 |