Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Howe, Nicholas:

ISBN 10: 026803463X / ISBN 13: 9780268034634

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

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Title: Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon ...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Broschiert

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Synopsis:

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.

Review:

"Howe's book is of value not only to scholars of medieval English literature but highly suitable for mythographers, cultural historians, anthropologists, and theologians. Documentation is thorough, and most footnotes are annotated; the bibliography is exhaustive. This study complements Howe's previous scholarship and assumes, by its authority and integrity of presentation, the status of a standard in contemporary scholarship relevant to Anglo-Saxon England." - Renaissance and Reformation"