Creation, migration, and conquest [electronic resource] : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / Fabienne L. Michelet.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xii, 297 p. : illOther title: Creation, migration, & conquest [Cover title]Subject(s): English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism | Geography in literature | Place (Philosophy) in literature | Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/001 LOC classification: PR173 | .M46 2006Other classification: 18.05 Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
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.
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