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Inhabited spaces : Anglo-Saxon constructions of place / Nicole Guenther Discenza

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 23Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: Online Ressource (xii, 261 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781487511531
  • 1487511531
  • 9781487500658
  • 1487500653
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1487500653 | 1487511531. | 9781487500658 | 9781487511531. | Erscheint auch als: Inhabited spaces. Druck-Ausgabe Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016DDC classification:
  • 304.2309420902
  • 304.2/309420902
LOC classification:
  • GF551
Online resources: Summary: "We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control."--Summary: Earth's place in the cosmos -- England, the Mediterranean, and beyond -- Recentring : the north and England's place -- Fruitful wastes in Beowulf, Guthlac A, and Andreas -- Halls and cities as locuses of civilization and sinPPN: PPN: 881823473Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-EBA | ZDB-4-NLEBK
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