The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland - Couverture rigide

Brady, Lindy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009225618 ISBN 13 : 9781009225618

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these peoples' origin stories, an important genre that has shaped national identity and collective history from the early medieval period to the present day. These multilingual texts share many common features that repay their study as a genre, but have previously been isolated as four disparate traditions and used to argue for the long roots of current nationalisms. Yet they were not written or read in isolation during the medieval period. Individual narratives were in constant development, written and rewritten to respond to other texts. This book argues that insular origin legends developed together to flesh out the history of the insular region as a whole.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009225618
• ISBN 13: 9781009225618
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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