Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
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"This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed 'national' legends of ancestral origins, showing how an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, 'Fredegar', Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and thelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the 'out-of-Scandinavia' tale was exploited to promote a legacy of 'barbarian' vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of 'the North' will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies"--
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
literature, Medieval
عنصر شناسه ای
ادبیات قرون وسطا
تقسیم فرعی موضوعی
-- History and criticism
تقسیم فرعی موضوعی
-- تاریخ و نقد
داده رابط بین فیلدها
a03
داده رابط بین فیلدها
a03
موضوع مستند نشده
Legends-- Europe, Northern-- History and criticism
موضوع مستند نشده
Scandinavia, In literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Europe, Northern, In literature.
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
809/
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02
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PN671
نشانه اثر
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R59
B32
2015
سایر رده بندی ها
شماره رده
LIT000000
کد سيستم
bisacsh
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