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ONLINE

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

1 online resource (xii, 297 p.) : ill

ISBN 019928671X

ISBN 9780199286713

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)135372934

GBA620877