| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Introduction : an outline of the Anglo-Saxons' sense of space -- Creation -- Ordering the world : creation narratives and spatial control -- The centres of Beowulf : a complex spatial order -- Localization and remapping : creating a new centrality for Anglo-Saxon England -- Migration -- Integrating new spaces : saint's lives and missions of conversion -- Searching for land : scriptural poetry and migration -- Conquest -- The descriptiones Britanniae and the adventus Saxonum : narratives strategies for the conquest of Britain |
| Summary |
Creation, Migration, and Conquest analyses how the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire shapes perceptions and representations of geographical space. Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective destiny. - ;Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature explores the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire; tracing its political, literary, and intellectual backgrounds and analysing how this imaginaire shapes perceptions and representations of geographical |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
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English literature -- Old English
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Geography in literature
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Oudengels.
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Geografie.
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Migratie (demografie)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429469821 |
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142946982X |
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9780191515996 |
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019151599X |
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1280870095 |
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9781280870095 |
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9786610870097 |
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6610870098 |
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