Creation, Migration, and Conquest
Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 June 2006
- ISBN 9780199286713
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 224x145x22 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 halftones 0
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Short description:
Creation, Migration, and Conquest analyses how the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire shapes perceptions and representations of geographical space. Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective destiny.
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Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature explores the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire; tracing its political, literary, and intellectual backgrounds and analysing how this imaginaire shapes perceptions and representations of geographical space. The book elaborates new interpretative paradigms, drawing on the work of continental scholars and literary critics, and on complementing interdisciplinary scholarship of medieval imaginary spaces and their representations. It gathers evidence from both Old English verse and historico-geographical documents, and focuses on the juncture between traditional scientific learning and the symbolic values attributed to space and orientation. Combining close reading with an original theoretical model, Creation, Migration, and Conquest offers innovative interpretations of celebrated texts and highlights the links between place, identity, and collective identity.
This monograph should prove to be a seminal study of the Anglo-Saxon spatial imaginaire
Table of Contents:
Introduction: An Outline of the Anglo-Saxons' Sense of Space
Section I: '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
Section II: 'Migration'
Integrating New Spaces: Saints' Lives and Missions of Conversion
Searching for Land: Scriptural Poetry and Migration
Section III: 'Conquest'
The Descriptiones Britanniae and the Adventus Saxonum: Narrative Strategies for the Conquest of Britain
