Description
Book SynopsisProvides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links between Englishness and the body in the texts and culture of this time.
Trade ReviewThe book is very learned, well-written, and full of thoughtful analyses of texts through which the author shows the ways in which the conceptualization of Englishness materialized in the early medieval period. * Mercedes Salvador Bello, University of Seville, Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Materializing Englishness 1: The Workings of Soil in Early English Hagiography 2: Stones, Books, and the Place of History around A.D. 900 3: The Trans-Planted Politics of Eleventh-Century England 4: Beowulf and Ethnic Matters Conclusion Works Cited
