Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England
Essays in Cultural Geography
Howe, Nicholas
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK 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 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Howe''s broad and humane perspective makes this not just a landmark work in Anglo-Saxon studies, buy a powerfully evocative meditation on land and culture, homeland and exile, conquest and colony, landscape and life, and the human condition of being ''at home'' in the world."—Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 030011933X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300119336
Dewey Decimal: 942.01
Library of Congress: 2007016407
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 278
Paper Weight (lb): 1.25 lb
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