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A place to believe in : locating medieval landscapes / edited by Clare A. Lees & Gillian R. Overing.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Landscapes--England--History--To 1500.
- Landscapes.
- Sacred space--England--History--To 1500.
- Sacred space.
- Landscapes in literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Medievalists have much to gain from a thoroughgoing contemplation of place. If landscapes are windows onto human activity, they connect us with medieval people, enabling us to ask questions about their senses of space and place. In
- Contents:
- At the Bewcastle Monument, in place / Fred Orton
- Bede's Jarrow / Ian Wood
- Living on the ecg : the mutable boundaries of land and water in Anglo-Saxon contexts / Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley
- Gender and the nature of exile in Old English elegies / Stacy S. Klein
- Spatial metaphors, textual production, and spirituality in the works of Gertrud of Helfta (1256-1301/2) / Ulrike Wiethaus
- Strategies of emplacement and displacement : St. Edith and the Wilton community in Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius / Stephanie Hollis
- Faith in the landscape : overseas pilgrimages in The book of Margery Kempe / Diane Watt
- Preserving, conserving, deserving the past : a meditation on ruin as relic in post-war Britain in five fragments / Sarah Beckwith
- Changing places : the Cistercian settlement and rapid climate change in Britain / Kenneth Addison
- Visible and invisible landscapes : medieval monasticism as a cultural resource in the Pacific Northwest / Ann Marie Rasmussen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271028599
- 0271028602
- OCLC:
- 62161131
- Publisher Number:
- 9780271028606
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