bokomslag Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England
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Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England

Nicholas Howe

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  • 296 sidor
  • 2007
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 Latin and Old English, as well as in diagrams of holy sites and a single map of the known world found in British Library, Cotton Tiberius B v. The scholars investigations are supplemented and aided by insights gleaned from his many trips to physical sites. The Anglo-Saxons possessed a remarkable body of geographical knowledge in written rather than cartographic form, Howe demonstrates. To understand fully their cultural geography, he considers Anglo-Saxon writings about the places they actually inhabited and those they imagined. He finds in Anglo-Saxon geographic images a persistent sense of being far from the center of the world, and he discusses how these migratory peoples narrowed that distance and developed ways to define themselves.
  • Författare: Nicholas Howe
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780300119336
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-12-01
  • Förlag: Yale University Press