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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brady, Lindy, editor.

Wadden, Patrick James, 1983- editor.

Series:

Reading medieval sources ; Volume 6.

Reading Medieval Sources Series ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Sources.

Middle Ages.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2022]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-52066-X

OCLC:

1337947594

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004520660 DOI