Review of Stacy S. Klein, William Schipper and Shannon Lewis-Simpson, eds, "The Maritime World of the Anglo-Saxons"

• Published in: Speculum
• Main Author: Leneghan, F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 2016
• Subjects: Stacy; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1086/693505; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:10abe788-b9d1-48e4-b17b-8bac91d9edda

This collection emerges from the 14th biennial meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, held at Memorial University, Newfoundland in 2009. Its fourteen new essays, many of them illustrated, reflect the society’s commitment to interdisciplinary work, with contributions from the fields of archaeology, geography, art history, literature, history and theology. The essays collected here serve as a timely reminder that English identity has always been marked by a complex and often ambivalent relationship with the waters that surround the island of Britain, dividing its people from and connecting them with friends and foes ofer hronrāde (“across the whale-road”).