Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia

by Catherine E. Karkov

Book Overview

A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.

This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their modern scholarly and popular afterlives. It suggests that what came to be called "Anglo-Saxon England" has always been an imaginary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783276983
• ISBN13: 9781783276981
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"