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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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Series: | Reading medieval sources ;
v. 6. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden
- Origin legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville's writings / Erica Buchberger
- Origin legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain / T.M. Charles-Edwards
- Origin legends in Italy in the early Middle Ages / Marios Costambeys
- Origin stories in the Viking Diaspora: Norway, Iceland, Orkney / Judith Jesch
- The Origin legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes / Robert Kasperski
- The early history of Frankish origin legends, c.500-800 C.E. / Helmut Reimit
- The legend of Trojan origins in the Later Middle Ages: texts and tapestries / Michael Clarke
- Fallen angels and the Island paradise / Catherine E. Karkovvi
- The new Israel motif in early medieval origin legends / Conor O'Brien
- Out-of-Scandinavia: new perspectives on Barbarian identity / Robert W. Rix
- Oral tradition and origin legends / Shami Ghosh
- Origin legends and objects / Katherine Cross
- Historiography and the invention of British identity: Troy as an origin legend in medieval Britain and Ireland / Helen Fulton
- Origin legends and genealogy / Ben Guy
- Myths of the Eastern origins of the Franks: fictions or a kind of truth? / John D. Niles
- Origines gentium and the long shadow of Rome / Alheydis Plassmann
- Myth, memory, and the early history of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory's Decem libri historiarum / Andrew Rabin
- Conclusion / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden
- Index.