Otherworlds - Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature

List of contents

• Introduction: Worlds within Worlds


• 1: Imagining Otherworlds


• 2: Otherworlds and the Afterlife


• 3: Supernatural Authorities


• 4: Archipelagic Otherworlds


• Conclusion: Points of Departure

About the author

Aisling Byrne studied at University College Dublin and St John's College, Cambridge. She has published on the transmission and translation of romance, on writers such as Gerald of Wales and Thomas Malory, and on themes such as marvels, feasting, chivalry, and territorial politics.

Summary

Otherworlds offers a new perspective on the otherworlds depicted in British and Irish medieval literature.

Product details

• Authors: Aisling Byrne, Aisling (Lecturer in Medieval English Liter Byrne, Aisling (Lecturer in Medieval English Literature Byrne, Byrne Aisling
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198833956
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883395-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval