Vernacular verse histories in early medieval England and Francia : the bard and the rag-picker /

"In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu sees this apparently legendary or fictional corpus as an alternative form of history-writing that actively meditates on its own relationship to historicity and fictionality while doing sophisticated (and often subversive) cultural and soc...

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Main Author:	Taranu, Catalin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:	Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:	Germanic poetry > History and criticism. Epic poetry, Germanic > History and criticism. Literature and history > Europe. History in literature. Epic poetry, Germanic. Germanic poetry. Literature and history. Europe. Criticism, interpretation, etc.