Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature /
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 Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective desti...
| Основен автор: | Michelet, Fabienne L. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192210 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Creation, migration, and conquest. |
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.