Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / / Fabienne L. Michelet.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 297 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.