Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-268) and index.
Introduction : Book and land -- Local places -- Writing the boundaries -- Home and landscape -- Geography and history. -- England and and the postcolonial void -- Rome as capital of Anglo-Saxon England -- From Bede's world to "Bede's world" -- Books of elsewhere -- Books of elsewhere : Cotton Tiberius B v and Cotton Vitellius A xv -- Falling into place : dislocation in Junius 11 -- Conclusion : by way of Durham