03775nam 2200733 450 991079789910332120240105212745.090-04-30581-510.1163/9789004305816(CKB)3710000000493081(EBL)4397584(SSID)ssj0001579372(PQKBManifestationID)16255363(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001579372(PQKBWorkID)14829211(PQKB)10782972(MiAaPQ)EBC4397584(nllekb)BRILL9789004305816(EXLCZ)99371000000049308120160616h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting the barbarian past studies in early medieval historical narrative /Shami GhoshLeiden, Netherlands :Brill,2016.©20161 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages : Continuation of the Transformation of the Roman World,Volume 24Description based upon print version of record.90-04-30522-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Germanic peoplesHistoryTo 1500HistoriographyGermanic peoplesHistoryTo 1500SourcesNarration (Rhetoric)HistoryTo 1500HistoriographyHistoryTo 1500Oral traditionHistoryTo 1500Ethnicity in literatureLatin literature, Medieval and modernHistory and criticismGermanic literatureHistory and criticismMiddle AgesHistoriographyMiddle AgesSourcesGermanic peoplesHistoryHistoriography.Germanic peoplesHistoryNarration (Rhetoric)HistoryHistoriographyHistoryOral traditionHistoryEthnicity in literature.Latin literature, Medieval and modernHistory and criticism.Germanic literatureHistory and criticism.Middle AgesHistoriography.Middle Ages940.12072Ghosh Shami1471571MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797899103321Writing the barbarian past3683914UNINA