Writing the barbarian past : : studies in early medieval historical narrative /

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

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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’...

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Ghosh, Shami,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages : Continuation of the Transformation of the Roman World, Volume 24
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Vernacular Oral Tradition and The ‘Germanic’ Past
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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