Origin legends in early medieval western Europe /
"This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part 1 (Regions) introduces t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Series: | Reading medieval sources ;
v. 6. |
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| Summary: | "This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part 1 (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts from the areas under this volume's purview. Part 2 (Themes) identifies key themes that appear in origin legends and introduces new arguments on a wide range of early medieval material. The chapters in Part 3 (Approaches) conclude the volume by highlighting a range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to origin legends"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 474 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004400368 9004400362 |