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

Published Leiden : Brill, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages Brill's series on the early Middle Ages. Contents Introduction: The barbarian past and early medieval historical narrative -- 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 -- Conclusions Summary "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"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Fredegarius Scholasticus ca. 7./8. Jh. Chronica gnd Paulus Diaconus 720-799 Historia Langobardorum gnd Waltharius, . (DE-588)18294557X gnd Beowulf gnd Liber historiae Francorum gnd Subject Germanic peoples -- History -- To 1500 -- Historiography Germanic peoples -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources 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 -- Sources. HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Ethnicity in literature. Germanic literature. Germanic peoples. Germanic peoples -- Historiography. Historiography. Latin literature, Medieval and modern. Middle Ages. Middle Ages -- Historiography. Narration (Rhetoric) Oral tradition. Germanen Geschichtsschreibung Historische Erzählung Europa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Sources. Form Electronic book ISBN 9789004305816 9004305815

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