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Subject(s)

• Middle Ages—Sources [Browse]
• Middle Ages—Historiography [Browse]

Editor

• Brady, Lindy [Browse]
• Wadden, Patrick James, 1983- [Browse]

Series

• Reading medieval sources ; Volume 6. [More in this series]
• Reading Medieval Sources Series ; Volume 6

Summary note

"This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part 1 (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts from the areas under this volume's purview. Part 2 (Themes) identifies key themes that appear in origin legends and introduces new arguments on a wide range of early medieval material. The chapters in Part 3 (Approaches) conclude the volume by highlighting a range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to origin legends"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden
• PART 1: Regions
• 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings / Erica Buchberger
• 3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain / T.M. Charles-Edwards
• 4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages / Marios Costambeys
• 5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney / Judith Jesch
• 6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes / Robert Kasperski
• 7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E. / Helmut Reimitz
• PART 2: Themes
• 8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries / Michael Clarke
• 9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise / Catherine E. Karkov
• 10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends / Conor O’Brien
• 11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity / Robert W. Rix
• 12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends / Shami Ghosh
• PART 3: Approaches
• 13 Origin Legends and Objects / Katherine Cross
• 14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland / Helen Fulton
• 15 Origin Legends and Genealogy / Ben Guy
• 16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth? / John D. Niles
• 17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome / Alheydis Plassmann
• 18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum / Andrew Rabin
• 19 Conclusion / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden
• Index.

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ISBN

9789004520660 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1337947594

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004520660

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