北方记忆与英国中世纪

这本书挑衅性地指出，17、18和19世纪的英国作家所记得的关于中世纪英国地理、历史、宗教和文学的许多东西，他们是通过中世纪和现代斯堪的纳维亚半岛来记住的。
反过来，这些记忆在更广泛的范围内发挥了作用。北欧国家信奉新教，基本上实行君主制，与法国、意大利和西班牙形成了政治上的相似精神。斯堪的纳维亚半岛与所谓的凯尔特边缘和海外殖民地一起，成为英国形成的外部参照点之一。随着记忆的不断重塑，该地区立刻成为英国高贵历史的一个形象，并成为对其当前全球地位的肯定，让人们在时间机器上旅行。
Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia.
These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Celtic fringe and overseas colonies, Scandinavia became one of the external reference points for the forging of the United Kingdom. Subject to the continual refashioning of memory, the region became at once an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status, rendering trips there rides on a time machine.

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