Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Michelet, Fabienne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism. Geography in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. Oudengels. Geografie. Migratie (demografie)
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction : an outline of the Anglo-Saxons' sense of space
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
Migration
Integrating new spaces : saint's lives and missions of conversion
Searching for land : scriptural poetry and migration
Conquest
The descriptiones Britanniae and the adventus Saxonum : narratives strategies for the conquest of Britain.