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Inhabited Spaces : Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place /

We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two prin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Discenza, Nicole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Earth's Place in the Cosmos
  • England, the Mediterranean, and Beyond
  • Recentring: The North and England's Place
  • Fruitful Wastes in Beowulf, Guthlac A, and Andreas
  • Halls and Cities as Locuses of Civilization and Sin
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index