Catalin Taranu

Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia (eBook, PDF)

The Bard and the Rag-picker

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000349627
• Artikelnr.: 61093375

Autorenporträt

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