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Michelet, Fabienne L.

Creation, migration, and conquest imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / [electronic resource] : Creation, migration, & conquest Fabienne L. Michelet. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 297 p. : ill.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA620877 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Geography in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR173 / .M46 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/001