Britain and Its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367342661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

Dirk H. Steinforth; Charles C. Rozier

Opis

Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with those in other parts of Europe between c.500-1700.

Spis treści

1. Wayland the Smith and the Massacre of the Innocents. Pagan-Christian ‘Amalgamation’ on the Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket  2. The Permeating Presence of Practices: Northwest English & Manx Ecclesiastical Sites with Viking-Age Furnished Burials & Sculpture  3. Between Continental Models, a Christian Message, and a Scandinavian Audience: Early Examples of the Image of ‘Christ trampling the Beasts’ in the British Isles  4. Silver Threads – How Scandinavian Scotland Connected with a Wider Economic World  5. The Problem of Manx: Norse Linguistic Evidence for the Eurvival of Manx Gaelic in the Scandinavian Period  6. Legal Custom & Lex Castrensis?: Using Law and Literature to Navigate the North-Sea Neighbourhood in the Late Viking Age  7. Ring-fencing the gardinum? European Romance to British Reality of the Thirteenth-Century Caernarfon Castle Garden and Park  8. Albany and the Poets: John Stuart, Duke of Albany, and the Transfer of Ideas Between Scotland and the Continent, 1509–1536  9. Anglo-Swiss Relations in the Seventeenth Century: Religion, Refuge, and Relief  10. Fashioning an Expanding English World: Commerce, Curiosities, and Coastal Profiles from Edward Barlow’s 1668 Voyage to Italian Port Cities  11. ‘England is not a kingdom located on the Moon’: Use and Usefulness of English Knowledge in Early Modern Swedish Agricultural Literature  12. An Honoured Guest: the 1764 Journeys across Piedmont of Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany