Table of Contents

Introduction: Edgar's Archipelago - Sebastian Sobecki
The Spiritual Islescape of the Anglo-Saxons - Winfried Rudolf
Lost at Sea: Nautical Travels in the Old English Exodus, the Old English Andreas, and Accounts of the adventus Saxonum - Fabienne Michelet
Edges and Otherworlds: Imagining Tidal Spaces in Early Medieval Britain - Catherine A M Clarke
East Anglia and the Sea in the Narratives of the Vie de St Edmund and Waldef - Judith Weiss
The Sea and Border Crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure - Kathy Lavezzo
'From Hulle to Cartage': Maps, England, and the Sea - Alfred Hiatt
Lingua Franca: Overseas Travel and Language Contact in The Book of Margery Kempe - Jonathan Hsy
'Birthplace for the poetry of the sea-ruling nation': Stopford Brooke and Old English - Chris Jones
Ruling the Waves: Saxons, Vikings, and the Sea in the Formation of an Anglo-British Identity in the Nineteenth Century - Joanne Parker
Afterword: Sea, Island, Mud - David Wallace
Bibliography

Reviews

A welcome addition to the growing list of titles re-examining the vitally important conceptual links between literature and the sea.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY*

[A] valuable addition to our understanding of medieval notions of Englishness and of England [...] demonstrates that English identity is and was a constant struggle against the pull of land and ocean alike, a hybrid existence at the edge of earth and water.
*LIMINA*

A well-produced, well-written and well-conceived volumes. [...] Medievalists of all disciplines will find something of interest here.
*THE RICARDIAN*