Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-40036-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Reading Medieval Sources

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part I (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts from the areas under this volume’s purview. Part II (Themes) identifies key themes that appear in origin legends and introduces new arguments on a wide range of early medieval material. The chapters in Part III (Approaches) conclude the volume by highlighting a range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to origin legends.

Contributors are Lindy Brady, Erica Buchberger, Thomas Charles-Edwards, Michael Clarke, Marios Costambeys, Katherine Cross, Helen Fulton, Shami Ghosh, Ben Guy, Judith Jesch, Catherine E. Karkov, Robert Kasperski, John D. Niles, Conor O’Brien, Alheydis Plassmann, Andrew Rabin, Helmut Reimitz, Robert W. Rix, and Patrick Wadden.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brady, Lindy

Wadden, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden

PART 1: Regions

2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings

Erica Buchberger

3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain

T.M. Charles-Edwards

4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages

Marios Costambeys

5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney

Judith Jesch

6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes

Robert Kasperski

7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E.

Helmut Reimitz

PART 2: Themes

8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries

Michael Clarke

9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise

Catherine E. Karkov

10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends

Conor O’Brien

11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity

Robert W. Rix

12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends

Shami Ghosh

PART 3: Approaches

13 Origin Legends and Objects

Katherine Cross

14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Helen Fulton

15 Origin Legends and Genealogy

Ben Guy

16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth?

John D. Niles

17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome

Alheydis Plassmann

18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum

Andrew Rabin

19 Conclusion

Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lindy Brady, Ph.D. (2012), University of Connecticut, is Assistant Professor of History at University College Dublin. She has published Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester, 2017) and The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2022).

Patrick Wadden, D.Phil. (2012), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor of History at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina. He has published articles and book chapters on the early medieval history and historiography of Ireland and Britain.