TY - GEN T1 - Angles on a kingdom : East Anglian identities from Bede to Ælfric A1 - Grossi, Joseph L., 1968- LA - English PP - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London PB - University of Toronto Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1237821777 AB - "From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region's recurring tensions with its neighbours--tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island's easternmost corner."-- OP - 385 CN - PR173 .G78 2021 SN - 9781487532574 SN - 1487532571 SN - 9781487532567 SN - 1487532563 SN - 9781487505738 SN - 1487505736 KW - English literature : Old English, ca. 450-1100 : History and criticism. KW - East Anglia (England) : In literature. KW - Littérature anglaise : ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) : Histoire et critique. KW - Est-Anglie (Angleterre) : Dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval KW - English literature : Old English KW - Literature KW - England : East Anglia KW - Kirchengeschichte KW - 450-1100 KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -