Creation, migration, and conquest : imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature /
Michelet, Fabienne.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
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.
English literature
Geography in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.