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Creation, migration, and conquest

by Michelet, Fabienne L.

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Published by : Oxford University Press, (Oxford ; | New York :) Physical details: xii, 297 p. : ill.

Subject(s): English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. | Geography in literature. | Place (Philosophy) in literature. | Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. | Electronic books.

Year: 2006

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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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