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Provides 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.

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The 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 *

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Introduction: 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

Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 16/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9780198757566, 978-0198757566
      ISBN10: 0198757565

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides 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 Review
      The 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 Contents
      Introduction: 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

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