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

Howe, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 030011933X / ISBN 13: 9780300119336

Edité par Yale University Press, 2008

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• Titre: Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Cultural Geography
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 030011933X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300119336
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
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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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The late Nicholas Howe was professor of English, University of California at Berkeley, and the author of several books, including Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England, published by Yale University Press.