Outlawry, liminality, and sanctity in the early medieval North Atlantic /
In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages however, the possibilities afforded by their position on societies' margins granted them the ability to fill a number of transitory, transgressive roles-young adventurer, freedom fighter, and e...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Early medieval North Atlantic.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Defining Outlawry; Outlawry, Mobility, and the Middle Ages; Transgression and Conduct; The North Atlantic Sea of Islands; Texts and Dates; 1. Outlawry and Liminality in the North Atlantic; The Meaning of Wrecca; Itinerancy, Capital, and Power; The Role of the Outlaw; Outlawry in North Atlantic Literature and Practice; The Rite de Passage and Liminality; The Potential and Threat of the Liminal; 2. Imitating Exile in Early Medieval Ireland; Ailithre, Penance, and Punishment; The Desert Sea; The Concept of Conduct
- The Immram, a Genre of ConductConduct and Obedience; 3. Lessons of Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England; Irish Conduct in Anglo-Saxon England?; Cynewulf and the Life as Journey; The Old English Physiologus and the Problem of Conduct; Discretio Spirituum; Pride and Hazardous Conduct; Discerning the Meaning of the Old English Physiologus; 4. The Transgressive Hero; Holy Wreccan; Guthlac of Crowland, Outlaw of God; The Intersection of Outlaw and Ascetic; Doxa and Transgression; Transgression and Aglæcan; Conduct and the Outlaw; 5. Cultural Exchange at the Boundaries of the Far North
- Outlaws and TransculturalismEncountering Others in Norse Saga and Belief; The Finnar, the Norse, and those in Between; Cultural Conduct among the Gods; Conduct in the Far North; 6. Transgression in Transition after the Norman Conquest; A New Outlaw for a New Time; Hereward the Wake; The Fens as Transgressive Environment; The Abbey of Ely as Transgressive Space; Altering the Outlaw's Environment; Move Forward; Bibliography; Index