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Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series

By (author) Nicole Discenza
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Published: 6th Jan 2017
Dimensions: w 149mm h 237mm d 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN-10: 1487500653
ISBN-13: 9781487500658
Barcode No: 9781487500658
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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.

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"...a fascinating literary analysis..." -- T. Pickles, University of Chester * The English Historical Review, vol 134 no 568 *