| #2285492 in Books | Ingramcontent | 2017-01-06 | Original language:English | 9.00 x1.00 x6.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | Inhabited Spaces Anglo Saxon Constructions of Place Toronto Anglo Saxon||||"Inhabited Spaces provides a new way of thinking about Anglo-Saxon notions of geography and cosmology. It is learned, lucid, and broadly humane in its outlook, a pleasure to read and a significant contribution to the field." (Roy Liuzza, Department of E
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 lig...
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