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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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