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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, tw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Discenza, Nicole Guenther, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.