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

By: Michelet, Fabienne L.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xii, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Other 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 Other classification: 18.05 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes 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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