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 and 1700.
Collectively, the twelve case studies highlight certain aspects of cultural contact and exchange and present neglected factors, previously overlooked evidence, and new methodological approaches. The discussions draw from a broad range of disciplines including archaeology, history, art history, iconography, literature, linguistics, and legal history in order to shine new light on a multi-faceted variety of expressions of the equally diverse and long-standing relations between Britain and its neighbours. Organised chronologically, the volume accentuates the consistency and continuity of social, cultural, and intellectual connections between Britain and Continental Europe in a period that spans over a millennium.
With its range of specialised topics, Britain and its Neighbours is a useful resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in cultural and intellectual studies and the history of Britain’s long-standing connections to Europe.
Author(s): Dirk H. Steinforth, Charles C. Rozier
Series: Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Maps
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Britain and its neighbours: Contacts, exchanges, influences. An introduction
Notes
1. Wayland the Smith and the Massacre of the Innocents: Pagan-Christian 'amalgamation' on the Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket
The front side of Franks Casket - Wayland's Revenge and the Adoration of the Magi
How can Jesus be linked to Wayland?
The Massacre of the Innocents
Wayland, the Anglo-Saxon Herod
Notes
2. The permeating presence of practices: Northwest English and Manx ecclesiastical sites with Viking-Age furnished burials and sculpture
Prying apart practices
Considering the context
Studying the stone
Extrapolating from the evidence
Conclusions and contemplations
Notes
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
Introduction: images of Christ and the Beasts
Continental links: occidental models and British images
Scandinavian links: pagan mythology and Christian messages
International links: influences and imports from across the seas
Notes
4. Silver threads: How Scandinavian Scotland connected with a wider economic world
Economic anthropology
Silver and market commerce in Scandinavian Scotland
Silver: commodity money for a long-distance age
Market currencies: the Baltic and Southern Scandinavian Model
Transfer to Ireland and Britain
Market economy in Scandinavian Scotland
Conclusions
Notes
5. The problem of Manx: Norse linguistic evidence for the survival of Manx Gaelic in the Scandinavian period
Introduction
Survival or extinction, and the limits to place-name evidence
Historical linguistic evidence: beyond the place-names
Linguistic theories: extinction or survival?
Pre-occlusion: Kenneth Jackson's fugitive unexploded d
Loanwords and their semantics
Conclusion
Appendix: Old Norse loanwords in Manx
Notes
6. Legal custom and Lex Castrensis?: Using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age
Introduction
Lex Castrensis and establishing Knútr's international legal legacy
Knútr's approach to Viking-Age problems
Lex Castrensis: a fictionalised solution to a factual Viking-Age problem?
Knútr's punitive attitude and a case for legal exchange in the late Viking Age
Literary approaches to the customary law of the late Viking Age
Notes
7. Ring-fencing the gardinum?: European romance to British reality of the thirteenth-century Caernarfon Castle garden and park
Introduction
Caernarfon Castle: Queen's Gate
Ring-fencing the medieval garden definition?
The garden below Queen's Gate
Eleanor de Castile's gardens: European romance to British reality
The 'Little Park' below Queen's Gate
Queen's Gate and an elite processional way
Conclusion
Notes
8. Albany and the poets: John Stuart, Duke of Albany, and the transfer of ideas between Scotland and the continent, 1509-1536
Pierre Gringore's Abus du Monde for James IV, c.1509
Macé de Villebresme's Epistres du Turc and the fortifications at Dunbar, 1515-1523
Bremond Domat, genealogy, and military ambition in the Hague Manuscript, 1518
Domat, the Liber Pluscardensis, and the Sainte Chapelle at Vic-le-Comte, 1519-1529
A sketch by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and a eulogy by Desmontiers, c.1525-1538
Blood and vellum: Albany's promotion of the Boulogne and d'Auvergne lineage
Conclusion
Notes
9. Anglo-Swiss relations in the seventeenth century: Religion, refuge, and relief
Notes
10. Fashioning an expanding English world: Commerce, curiosities, and coastal profiles from Edward Barlow's 1668 voyage to Italian port cities
English shipping to the Mediterranean and Italian shores, 1660s
Edward Barlow: an eyewitness to history
Edward Barlow's 1668-1669 Mediterranean cruise
Conclusion
Notes
11. 'England is not a kingdom located on the Moon': Use and usefulness of English knowledge in early modern Swedish agricultural literature
Introduction
Translation as appropriation
Jacob Serenius and The English Husbandman and Shepherd (1727)
The kingdom not located on the moon: calendar and climate
The confusing case of the colon symbol: units of measurements
Things not useful other than in England? Knowledge and status
Reinerus Broocman and A Complete Book of Swedish Husbandry (1736)
Broocman, Serenius, and the problem of measurements
Seaweed and clay: from England to Sweden through Europe
The usefulness of English agricultural knowledge in Swedish books of husbandry and agriculture
Epilogue
Notes
12. An honoured guest: The 1764 journeys across Piedmont of Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
Introduction
Reading the reports: Prince Edward's journeys and stays in Piedmont
The first journey (10 February-7 March 1764)
The second journey (10-27 July 1764)
Prince Edward in Piedmont: a case study
A critical interpretation of Prince Edward's journeys: strategies of appearance and 'Shortcut-Diplomacy' between Britain and Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century
Notes
Further Reading
Index
