Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe / / edited by Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden.

• Superior document: Reading Medieval Sources ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Brady, Lindy,; Wadden, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Medieval Sources ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (477 pages)
• Notes: 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 dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.
• Other title: List of Figures --; Notes on Contributors --; 1 Introduction /; PART 1: Regions --; 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings /; 3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain /; 4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages /; 5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney /; 6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes /; 7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E. /; PART 2: Themes --; 8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries /; 9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise /; 10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends /; 11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity /; 12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends /; PART 3: Approaches --; 13 Origin Legends and Objects /; 14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland /; 15 Origin Legends and Genealogy /; 16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth? /; 17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome /; 18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum /; 19 Conclusion /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004520660
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden.

"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"--