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Writing the barbarian past : studies in early medieval historical narrative / / Shami Ghosh



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Autore: Ghosh Shami Visualizza persona
Titolo: Writing the barbarian past : studies in early medieval historical narrative / / Shami Ghosh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)
Disciplina: 940.12072
Soggetto topico: Germanic peoples - History - To 1500 - Historiography
Germanic peoples - History - To 1500
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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Writing the barbarian past  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-30581-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809344403321
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