| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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 Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective destiny.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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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. |
| Chronological Term |
450-1100 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Cover Title |
Creation, migration, & conquest |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Michelet, Fabienne L. Creation, migration, and conquest. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 019928671X 9780199286713 (DLC) 2006005340 (OCoLC)63702630 |
| ISBN |
9781429469821 (electronic book) |
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142946982X (electronic book) |
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9780191515996 (electronic book) |
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019151599X (electronic book) |
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1280870095 |
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9781280870095 |
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019928671X (Cloth) |
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9780199286713 |
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