Old and Middle English

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Towards A Poetics of Marvellous Spaces in Old and Middle English Narrative - Medievalists.net

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I argue that the heart of this poetics of marvellous spaces is displacement. Their wonder and dread comes from boundaries that these places blur and cross, from the resistance of these places to being known or mapped, and from the deliberate distancing