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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden -- PART 1: Regions -- 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings / Erica Buchberger -- 3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain / T.M. Charles-Edwards -- 4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages / Marios Costambeys -- 5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney / Judith Jesch -- 6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes / Robert Kasperski -- 7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E. / Helmut Reimitz -- PART 2: Themes -- 8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries / Michael Clarke -- 9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise / Catherine E. Karkov -- 10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends / Conor O’Brien -- 11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity / Robert W. Rix -- 12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends / Shami Ghosh -- PART 3: Approaches -- 13 Origin Legends and Objects / Katherine Cross -- 14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland / Helen Fulton -- 15 Origin Legends and Genealogy / Ben Guy -- 16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth? / John D. Niles -- 17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome / Alheydis Plassmann -- 18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum / Andrew Rabin -- 19 Conclusion / Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden -- Index.