Angles on a Kingdom

East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric

Joseph Grossi

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English

University of Toronto Press
05 July 2021

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Medieval European archaeology

"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 lfric 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."

By: Joseph Grossi
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781487505738
ISBN 10: 1487505736
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 05 July 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Grossi is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria.

Reviews for Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric

"""Grossi’s wide-ranging and at times whimsical book will encourage readers to revisit familiar texts in search of unsuspected meanings…Reading it prompts all manner of new questions."" -- Richard Purkiss, Oxford * <em>Early Medieval Europe</em> *"