Lindy Brady (Edge Hill University)

The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking a multilingual and comparative approach to the origin legends of early medieval Britain and Ireland in Latin and vernacular languages, this holistic study demonstrates their interconnected nature and traces their development over time, illuminating textual connections, shared themes, and the growth of these stories as a corpus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781009225632
• ISBN-10: 1009225634
• Artikelnr.: 70742389

Autorenporträt

Lindy Brady is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of History at University College Dublin. She taught at the University of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020. Her first book, Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (2017), won Best Book on an Anglo-Saxon Topic Publication Prize, 2019, from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (formerly the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists) and won the Southeastern Medieval Association award for best first book, 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Framing history
1. Textual connections
2. Exile
3. Kin-slaying
4. Intermarriage and incest
5. Early medieval origin legends in early modern histories
Conclusion. Origin legends and local history.