<DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Eminent Anglo-Saxonist Nicholas Howe explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. His elegantly written study focuses on Anglo-Saxon representations of&nbsp; place as revealed in a wide variety of texts in Latin and Old English, as well as in diagrams of holy sites and a single map of the known world found in British Library, Cotton Tiberius B v.&nbsp; The scholar&#8217;s investigations are supplemented and aided by insights gleaned from his many trips to physical sites.&nbsp;&nbsp; </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Anglo-Saxons possessed a remarkable body of geographical knowledge in written rather than cartographic form, Howe demonstrates. To understand fully their cultural geography, he considers Anglo-Saxon writings about the places they actually inhabited and those they imagined. He finds in Anglo-Saxon geographic images a persistent sense of being far from the center of the world, and he discusses how these migratory peoples narrowed that distance and developed ways to define themselves.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B></B>&nbsp;</P></DIV>