The tears I shed were Noah's flood : medieval genre, floods and the fluvial landscape in the poetry of Guto'r Glyn

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Description :
The paper presents an analysis of the poetry of G. Glyn, one of the most prominent Welsh poets of the medieval period, in order to gain an insight into Welsh society's perception of the fluvial environment and ways in which it appropriated rivers and foods for cultural purposes. Rivers were an integral part of a complex cultural landscape of topos and genre and were linked both to Biblical deluges and to myths of submersion. Floodplains were important sites of creativity as well as sites of settlement, cultivation and travel. An analysis of historical cultural attitudes to the fluvial landscape may provide evidence of such adaptation and resilience by societies of the past.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 2013, vol. 40, p. 94-104, nombre de pages : 11

Date :
2013

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press