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03376aam a2200445 i 4500 001 7A0AD86EF76711E7BF59292497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180112010205 008 160602s2017 onca b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1487500653 020 $a 9781487500658 035 $a (OCoLC)950450711 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d IMD $d COO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-uk-en 050 4 $a GF551 $b .D58 2017 055 0 $a GF551 $b .D58 2016 082 04 $a 304.2/309420902 $2 23 100 1 $a Discenza, Nicole Guenther, $d 1969- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96023650 245 10 $a Inhabited spaces : $b Anglo-Saxon constructions of place / $c Nicole Guenther Discenza. 246 30 $a Anglo-Saxon constructions of place 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xii, 261 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; $v 23 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-241) and index. 505 0 $a 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 sin. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Geographical perception $z England $x History $y Medieval, 500-1500. 650 0 $a Sacred space $z England $x History $y Medieval, 500-1500. 650 0 $a Space perception $z England $x History $y Medieval, 500-1500. 650 0 $a Human geography $z England $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a English literature $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103199 650 0 $a Latin literature, Medieval and modern $z England $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009128956 650 0 $a Geographical perception in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002141 650 0 $a Geography in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005295 650 0 $a Space perception in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011003504 651 0 $a England $x Civilization $y To 1500. 830 0 $a Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; $v 23. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009095960 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A0AD86EF76711E7BF59292497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search