In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
Catalin Taranu is a literary-historical scholar working on the vernacular poems and cultures of early medieval England and Francia. He has taught medieval literature and Old English and has shared his research on Beowulf , medieval rhizomes of narratives, and vernacular theories of truth and history in talks and publications. Catalin is currently a postdoctoral researcher at New Europe College, Bucharest, where he studies the socio-emotional economy of shame and honour in medieval heroic poetry. An essay collection titled Vera Lex Historiae?: Constructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative (co-edited with Michael Kelly and forthcoming from Punctum's Gracchi Books) explores strategies of constructing, authorizing, and assessing truth in medieval historical narrative.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter One: Beyond Germanic Heroic Poetry: Poets, Historians, and the Gods of Our Fathers Chapter Two: What We Talk About When We Talk About History: The Old English Vocabulary of Narrative and Historical Representation Chapter Three: 'Truth is the trickiest': Vernacular Theories of Truth in Early Medieval Culture Chapter Four: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?: The Social Logic of Frankish Verse Histories Chapter Five: Beowulf in Times of Anxiety: The Archaeology of Emotions in Old English Verse History
Introduction Chapter One: Beyond Germanic Heroic Poetry: Poets, Historians, and the Gods of Our Fathers Chapter Two: What We Talk About When We Talk About History: The Old English Vocabulary of Narrative and Historical Representation Chapter Three: 'Truth is the trickiest': Vernacular Theories of Truth in Early Medieval Culture Chapter Four: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?: The Social Logic of Frankish Verse Histories Chapter Five: Beowulf in Times of Anxiety: The Archaeology of Emotions in Old English Verse History
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