| Description |
xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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Geography in literature.
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Geography in literature. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. |
| Cover Title |
Creation, migration, & conquest |
| ISBN |
019928671X |
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9780199286713 |
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