TY - BOOK AU - Michelet,Fabienne L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Creation, migration, and conquest: imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature AV - PR173 .M46 2006eb U1 - 820.9/001 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English literature KW - Old English, ca. 450-1100 KW - History and criticism KW - Geography in literature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature KW - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10271596 ER -