Inhabited Spaces: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place PDF
278 Pages·2017·18.79 MB·English
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INHABITED SPACES Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place St John’s MS. 17, fol. 6r. Reproduced by kind permission of the President and Fellows of St John’s College, Oxford. Inhabited Spaces Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place NICOLE GUENTHER DISCENZA UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London For Mom and Dad This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 1 Earth’s Place in the Cosmos 12 2 England, the Mediterranean, and Beyond 56 3 Recentring: The North and England’s Place 102 4 Fruitful Wastes in Beowulf, Guthlac A, and Andreas 140 5 Halls and Cities as Locuses of Civilization and Sin 179 Conclusions 220 Bibliography 225 Index 243 This page intentionally left blank
Description: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 prin
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