Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England : Essays in Cultural Geography / Nicholas Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglo-Saxons.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.

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

English literature.

Cultural geography--Great Britain.

Cultural geography.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eminent Anglo-Saxonist Nicholas Howe explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. His elegantly written study focuses on Anglo-Saxon representations of place as revealed in a wide variety of texts in Latin and Old English, as well as in diagrams of holy sites and a single map of the known world found in British Library, Cotton Tiberius B v. The scholar's investigations are supplemented and aided by insights gleaned from his many trips to physical sites. The Anglo-Saxons possessed a remarkable body of geographical knowledge in written rather than cartographic form, Howe demonstrates. To understand fully their cultural geography, he considers Anglo-Saxon writings about the places they actually inhabited and those they imagined. He finds in Anglo-Saxon geographic images a persistent sense of being far from the center of the world, and he discusses how these migratory peoples narrowed that distance and developed ways to define themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Book and Land

1. Writing the Boundaries

2. Home and Landscape

3. Englalond and the Postcolonial Void

4. Rome as Capital of Anglo-Saxon England

5. From Bede's World to ''Bede's World''

6. Books of Elsewhere: Cotton Tiberius B v and Cotton Vitellius A xv

7. Falling into Place: Dislocation in Junius 11

Conclusion: By Way of Durham

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300150148

0300150148

OCLC:

1024051328