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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michelet, Fabienne, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Geography in literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Creation, migration, & conquest

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fabienne Michelet analyses how the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire shaped perceptions and representations of geographical space, both in historical documents and verse. She highlights the links between place, identity and collective destiny.

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.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-291) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04326-4

1-280-87009-5

0-19-151599-X

1-4294-6982-X

OCLC:

609831937