Sovereign Fantasies

Sovereign Fantasies
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780812236002
ISBN-13 : 0812236009
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Book Synopsis Sovereign Fantasies by : Patricia Ingham

Download or read book Sovereign Fantasies written by Patricia Ingham and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined cimmunity" of British sovereignty. the Arthurian lageneds provided a means to explore England's historical indebtedness to and intimacies with Celtic culture, allowing nobles to repudiate their dynastic ties to France and claim themselves heirs to an insular heritage".


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