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Writing the map of Anglo-Saxon England : essays in cultural geography /

"Eminent Anglo-Saxonist Nicholas Howe explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. His elegantly written study focuses on Anglo-Saxon representations of place as revealed in a wide variety of texts in La...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Howe, Nicholas (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : Book and land
  • Local places
  • Writing the boundaries
  • Home and landscape
  • Geography and history.
  • Englalond and the postcolonial void
  • Rome as capital of Anglo-Saxon England
  • From Bede's world to "Bede's world"
  • Books of elsewhere
  • Books of elsewhere : Cotton Tiberius B v and Cotton Vitellius A xv
  • Falling into place : dislocation in Junius 11
  • Conclusion : by way of Durham.