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Author: Lindy Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1009225618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This holistic study demonstrates the interconnected nature of early medieval origin legends and traces their growth over time.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 900452066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.
Author: Lindy Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1009225650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In it, Daibhi O Croinin describes Ireland's emergence from the darkness of prehistory into the brilliant light of her 'Golden Age', as the 'Island of Saints and Scholars', and the subsequent evolution of a society comparable in achievement and sophistication with any in early medieval Europe.
Author: Rory Naismith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1108424449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deconstructs the early history of Britain, illustrating a transformative era with wide-ranging sources and an accessible narrative.
Author: Rebecca Thomas
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1843846276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation. WINNER OF THE FRANCIS JONES PRIZE 2022 Early medieval writers viewed the world as divided into gentes ("peoples"). These were groups that could be differentiated from each other according to certain characteristics - by the language they spoke or the territory they inhabited, for example. The same writers played a key role in deciding which characteristics were important and using these to construct ethnic identities. This book explores this process of identity construction in texts from early medieval Wales, focusing primarily on the early ninth-century Latin history of the Britons (Historia Brittonum), the biography of Alfred the Great composed by the Welsh scholar Asser in 893, and the tenth-century vernacular poem Armes Prydein Vawr ("The Great Prophecy of Britain"). It examines how these writers set about distinguishing between the Welsh and the other gentes inhabiting the island of Britain through the use of names, attention to linguistic difference, and the writing of history and origin legends. Crucially important was the identity of the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of the entirety of Britain; its significance and durability are investigated, alongside its interaction with the emergence of an identity focused on the geographical unit of Wales.
Author: Pádraic Moran
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503553139
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Daibhi O Croinin, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland's interaction with its neighbours, namely a) Ireland in the Insular world, b) continental influences in Ireland, and c) Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature.
Author: Clare Downham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1108546846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.
Author: Stephen T. Driscoll
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburg University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lloyd Robert Laing
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The term 'Dark Ages' was coined to describe a period which was seen as a period of anarchy and violence, following the collapse of civilisation. Recent discoveries by archaeologists and historians have, however, radically altered this traditional view of the Dark Ages, and the period is now seen as one of innovation and dynamic social evolution. This book reconsiders a number of traditionally accepted views. It argues, for example, that the debt of the Dark Age Celts to Rome was enormous, even in areas such as Ireland that were never occupied by Roman invaders. It also discusses the traditional chronology suggesting that the date of 'AD 400' usually taken as the start of the 'early Christian period in Britain and Ireland now has comparatively little meaning. Once this conventional framework is removed, it is possible to show how the Celtic world of the Dark Ages took shape under Roman influence in the centuries between about 200 to 800, and looked to Rome even for the immediate inspiration for its art. Such questions as the extent of British (that is, Celtic) survival in pagan Saxon England, and the Celtic and Roman contribution to early England are considered.
