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Creation, migration, and conquest [[electronic resource] ] : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / / Fabienne L. Michelet



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Autore: Michelet Fabienne L Visualizza persona
Titolo: Creation, migration, and conquest [[electronic resource] ] : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / / Fabienne L. Michelet Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/001
Soggetto topico: English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism
Geography in literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: 18.05
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective destiny.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
Titolo autorizzato: Creation, migration, and conquest  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-87009-5
0-19-151599-X
1-4294-6982-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451556303321
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