About the Author
Clare A. Lees is Professor of Medieval Literature and the History of the Language at King's College London.
Gillian R. Overing is Professor of English at Wake Forest University.
Table of Contents
ContentsAcknowledgments
Anglo-Saxon Horizons: Places of the Mind in the Northumbrian Landscape
Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing
Part I: Place Matters
1. At the Bewcastle Monument, in Place
Fred Orton
2. Bede’s Jarrow
Ian Wood
3. Living on the Ecg: The Mutable Boundaries of Land and Water in Anglo-Saxon Contexts
Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley
Part II: Textual Locations
4. Gender and the Nature of Exile in Old English Elegies
Stacy S. Klein
5. Spatial Metaphors, Textual Production, and Spirituality in the Works of Gertrud of Helfta
(1256–1301/2)
Ulrike Wiethaus
6. Strategies of Emplacement and Displacement: St. Edith and the Wilton Community in Goscelin’s
Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius
Stephanie Hollis
7. Faith in the Landscape: Overseas Pilgrimages in The Book of Margery Kempe
Diane Watt
Part III: Landscapes in Time
8. Preserving, Conserving, Deserving the Past: A Meditation on Ruin as Relic in Post-War Britain in Five Fragments
Sarah Beckwith
9. Changing Places: Rapid Climate Change and the Cistercian Settlement in Britain
Kenneth Addison
10. Visible and Invisible Landscapes: Medieval Monasticism as a Cultural Resource in the Pacific Northwest
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Contributors
Index