Writing the barbarian past : studies in early medieval historical narrative / by Shami Ghosh.
Writing the barbarian past :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004305816 (electronic book)
9789004305229 (print)
9789004305229 (print)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0958
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Brill's series on the early Middle Ages, 1878-4879 ; v. 24
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references and index.
İçindekiler Notu
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Gothic Histories of Jordanes and Isidore -- The Origins of the Franks -- Paul the Deacon and the Ancient History of the Lombards -- A ‘Germanic’ Hero in Latin and the Vernacular: Waltharius and Waldere -- Looking Back to a Troubled Past: Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Historical Consciousness -- Vernacular Oral Tradition and The ‘Germanic’ Past -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
Writing the Barbarian Past examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and vernacular historical narratives composed between c.550 and c.1000: the Gothic histories of Jordanes and Isidore of Seville, the Fredegar chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum , Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum , Waltharius , and Beowulf ; it also examines the evidence for an oral vernacular tradition of historical narrative in this period. In this book, Shami Ghosh analyses the relative significance granted to the Roman and non-Roman inheritances in narratives of the distant past, and what the use of this past reveals about the historical consciousness of early medieval elites, and demonstrates that for them, cultural identity was conceived of in less binary terms than in most modern scholarship.
Konu
Germanic peoples __ History __ Historiography. __ To 1500.
Germanic peoples __ History __ To 1500 __ Sources.
Narration (Rhetoric) __ History __ To 1500.
Historiography __ History __ To 1500.
Oral tradition __ History __ To 1500.
Ethnicity in literature.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern __ History and criticism.
Germanic literature __ History and criticism.
Middle Ages __ Historiography.
Middle Ages __ Sources.
Germanic peoples __ History __ To 1500 __ Sources.
Narration (Rhetoric) __ History __ To 1500.
Historiography __ History __ To 1500.
Oral tradition __ History __ To 1500.
Ethnicity in literature.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern __ History and criticism.
Germanic literature __ History and criticism.
Middle Ages __ Historiography.
Middle Ages __ Sources.