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Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature
- Title
- Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / Fabienne L. Michelet.
- Author
- Michelet, Fabienne.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 297 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Creation, migration, & conquest
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-13130
- ISBN
- 019928671X
- LCCN
- 2006005340
- 9780199286713
- OCLC
- 63702630
- vendorOCM63702630
- Author
- Michelet, Fabienne.
- Title
- Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / Fabienne L. Michelet.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
- Cover Title
- Creation, migration, & conquest
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780199286713
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-13130