Our Sea of Islands: New Approaches to British Insularity in the Late Middle Ages

by Matthew Boyd Goldie (Editor), Sebastian Sobecki (Editor)

Overview

This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider possible paths to thinking about late-medieval archipelagism, and in doing so, highlight the inconsistencies and contradictions in medieval (and modern) conceptions of the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031464041
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	12/26/2023
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	115
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matthew Bold Goldie is Professor at Rider University, USA.

Sebastian Sobecki is Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Our Seas of Islands.- 2. The trouble with Britain.- 3.Britain and the sea of darkness: Islandology in al-Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-Mushtaq.- 4. From Pliny to Brexit: Spatial representation of the British Isles.- 5. Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape.- 6. Fictions of the Island: girdling the sea.- 7. The Bermuda assemblage: Toward a posthuman globalization.- 8. Afterword.- 9. Dynamic fluidity and wet ontology: Current work on the archipelagic North Sea.