Angels on the edge of the world : geography, literature, and English community, 1000-1534
In a view that sweeps from the tenth century to the mid 16th century, this text shows how the English people's concern with their island's relative isolation on the global map contributed to the emergence of a distinctive English national consciousness in which marginality came to be seen as a virtue
Print Book, English, 2006
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 2006