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

Howe, Nicholas

Yale University Press（2007/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.／サイズ 19 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780300119336
• DDC分類 911.42

基本説明

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.

Full Description

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.