Creation, migration, and conquest
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Fabienne Michelet analyses how the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire shaped perceptions and representations of geographical space, both in historical documents and verse. She highlights the links between place, identity and collective destiny.
العنوان |
Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / Fabienne L. Michelet. [electronic resource] |
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عنوان بديل |
Creation, migration, & conquest |
الناشر |
Oxford : Oxford University Press |
تاريخ الإصدار |
2023 |
ملاحظات |
Formerly CIP. Previously issued in print: 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-291) and index. English |
رقم الرف |
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. |
سلسلة |
Oxford scholarship online. |
الشكل |
1 online resource (314 pages) |
اللغة |
الانكليزية |
رقم النظام |
997010710792605171 |
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