Robert Rix

The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts, focusing on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Rix maps how these discourses informed 'national' legends of ancestral origins, showing how an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend can be found in works by writers like Jordanes, Bede, 'Fredegar', Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. He investigates how legends of northern warriors were created in classical texts and re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity, employing perspectives from poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. Following interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this study of 'the North' will inspire new debates in medieval studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317589693
• Artikelnr.: 41836570

Autorenporträt

Robert W. Rix is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of the book William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (2007) and is chief editor of Romantik - Journal for the Study of Romanticisms. In recent years, Rix has written a number of articles on the use of Norse mythology in British fiction, and he has published an anthology on Norse tradition in English poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ethnogenesis and the 'Out-of-Scandinavia' Legend 2. The
Goths and the Legend of Scandza 3. Ethnic History and the Origin of Nations
4. Ancestral Rhetoric in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English
People 5. Northumbrian Angels in Rome: Religion, Race and Politics in the
Anecdote of St Gregory 6. Scandinavian Ancestors in Anglo-Saxon Texts 7.
Danes and Geatas: Heroes of the Legendary North