Creation, migration, and conquest imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature /
| Основен автор: | Michelet, Fabienne L. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Съдържание:
- 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.