Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia by Catherine E. Kar

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A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.

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A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their modern scholarly and popular afterlives. It suggests that what came to be called "Anglo-Saxon England" has always been an imaginary place, an empty space into which ideas of what England was, or should have been, or should be, have been inserted from the arrival of peoples from the Continent in the fifth and sixth centuries to the arrival of the self-named "alt-right" in the twenty-first. It argues that the political and ideological violence that was a part of the origins of England as a place and the English as a people has never been fully acknowledged; instead, the island was reimagined as a chosen land home to a chosen people, the gens Anglorum. Unacknowledged violence, however, continued to haunt English history and culture. Through her examination here of the writings of Bede and King Alfred, the Franks Casket and the illuminated Wonders of the East, and the texts collected together to form the Beowulf manuscript, the author shows how this continues to haunt "Anglo-Saxon Studies" as a discipline and Anglo-Saxonism as an ideology, from the antiquarian studies of the sixteenth century through to the nationalistic and racist violence of today.

Author Biography

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

IntroductionA plan for utopia to comeUtopia past and the heterotopia of originsUtopia/dystopia: humanity and its others in the Beowulf manuscriptRetrotopia: Anglo-Saxonism, Anglo-Saxonists, and the myth of originsBibliography

Review

Importantly, Karkov has positioned her voice within a monograph, which enables her to develop a sustained and complex argument that asks her reader to think deeply and honestly about issues that have been the subject of much division and derisiveness. The importance of what Karkov has done for the field of early medieval studies by writing Imagining Anglo-Saxon England cannot be overstated. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[O]ne of the most important studies of early medieval identity published in the past twenty years. . . . This monograph is not only impeccably researched and forcefully argued, but it also has the rare (and hopefully increasingly common) quality in medieval scholarship of being unequivocally important. As medieval studies (and Anglo-American society more broadly) attempts to confront its own colonial and racialized past, Catherine Karkov has identified a good place to start. * COMITATUS *Sharply incisive, unflinchingly direct, and the best kind of provocative, Catherine Karkov's Imagining Anglo-Saxon England provides one of the most cogent accounts to date of the fraught history of "Anglo-Saxon" studies. ...Imagining Anglo Saxon England takes important steps towards bridging the chasm between acknowledgment of the field's past harms and hope for its newly envisioned future. * SPECULUM *The book is uncompromising in its response to a turbulent world and changing field and is sure to be influential. -- TOEBI NEWSLETTER[E]ngaging and important points. -- Mary Cockray-Miller * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *

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Importantly, Karkov has positioned her voice within a monograph, which enables her to develop a sustained and complex argument that asks her reader to think deeply and honestly about issues that have been the subject of much division and derisiveness. The importance of what Karkov has done for the field of early medieval studies by writing Imagining Anglo-Saxon England cannot be overstated.

Details ISBN1783276983 Author Catherine E. Karkov Pages 282 Series Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1783276983 ISBN-13 9781783276981 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-05-27 Series Number 21 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint The Boydell Press Place of Publication Woodbridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-05-27 NZ Release Date 2022-05-27 UK Release Date 2022-05-27 Illustrations 5 colour, 6 b/w illus. Subtitle Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia DEWEY 709.4209021 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781783275199 We've got this

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