A place to believe in : locating medieval landscapes / edited by Clare A. Lees & Gillian R. Overing.

Other author Lees, Clare A.
Other author Overing, Gillian R., 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionviii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Civilization, Medieval.
Landscapes--England. --History. --To 1500.
Sacred space--England. --History. --To 1500.
Landscapes in literature.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500. --History and criticism.
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100. --History and criticism.

Contents At the Bewcastle Monument, in place / Fred Orton -- Bede's Jarrow / Ian Wood -- Living on the ecg : the mutable boundaries of land and water in Anglo-Saxon contexts / Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley -- Gender and the nature of exile in Old English elegies / Stacy S. Klein -- Spatial metaphors, textual production, and spirituality in the works of Gertrud of Helfta (1256-1301/2) / Ulrike Wiethaus -- Strategies of emplacement and displacement : St. Edith and the Wilton community in Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius / Stephanie Hollis -- Faith in the landscape : overseas pilgrimages in The book of Margery Kempe / Diane Watt -- Preserving, conserving, deserving the past : a meditation on ruin as relic in post-war Britain in five fragments / Sarah Beckwith -- Changing places : the Cistercian settlement and rapid climate change in Britain / Kenneth Addison -- Visible and invisible landscapes : medieval monasticism as a cultural resource in the Pacific Northwest / Ann Marie Rasmussen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005030178
ISBN0271028599 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN0271028602 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780271028606