Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
Nicholas Howe
A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.
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Рік:
1989
Видання:
1st
Видавництво:
Yale University Press
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0300045123
ISBN 13:
9780300045123
Файл:
PDF, 9.92 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1989