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Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England

Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England Essays in Cultural Geography

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 scholar's 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.

 

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300119336
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 942.01
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 278
Weight: 570g
Height: 165mm
Width: 243mm
Spine width: 25mm