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Littoral Encounters: The Shore as Cultural Interface in King Horn1

Littoral Encounters: The Shore as Cultural Interface in King Horn1 The thirteenth-century poem King Horn is widely regarded as the first Middle English romance. Consequently, a disproportional amount of attention has been paid to the work's genre and linguistic features, often at the expense of more complex interpretative concerns. One such aspect of the poem is the structural negotiation of the conflict between Saracens and the londisse men allied to the protagonist. This clash permeates the work and pits the land against the sea, elevating the shore to a defining role. 1 This article is based on a paper prepared for the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 2004. Another version has been presented at the 2005 Birkbeck College Medieval Seminar, Saracens: Islam and Medieval England. I would like to thank David Wallace and Al-Masāq's anonymous reviewers for the helpful comments. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Littoral Encounters: The Shore as Cultural Interface in King Horn1

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The thirteenth-century poem King Horn is widely regarded as the first Middle English romance. Consequently, a disproportional amount of attention has been paid to the work's genre and linguistic features, often at the expense of more complex interpretative concerns. One such aspect of the poem is the structural negotiation of the conflict between Saracens and the londisse men allied to the protagonist. This clash permeates the work and pits the land against the sea, elevating the shore...
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The thirteenth-century poem King Horn is widely regarded as the first Middle English romance. Consequently, a disproportional amount of attention has been paid to the work's genre and linguistic features, often at the expense of more complex interpretative concerns. One such aspect of the poem is the structural negotiation of the conflict between Saracens and the londisse men allied to the protagonist. This clash permeates the work and pits the land against the sea, elevating the shore to a defining role. 1 This article is based on a paper prepared for the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 2004. Another version has been presented at the 2005 Birkbeck College Medieval Seminar, Saracens: Islam and Medieval England. I would like to thank David Wallace and Al-Masāq's anonymous reviewers for the helpful comments.

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2006

Keywords: Saracens in literature; Middle English literature; Sea; King Horn, ME; Romance

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