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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 900452066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: 1009225618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis holistic study demonstrates the interconnected nature of early medieval origin legends and traces their growth over time.
Author: H. A. Guerber
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781410206077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, the classic culture of Greece and Rome, with its gods and legends, was forgotten; and from among the many races and tribes that had spread over Western Europe following the collapse of the Empire there emerged new legends, indigenous to the newcomers. The collection in this book brings together the most famous of the European stories, some with roots dating back to pagan times, other extolling the virtues of more recent heroes--Christian paladins, kings, and emperors. Originally published in 1896, book presents the legends of Beowulf, Gudrun, Reynard the Fox, The Nibelungenlied, Charlemagne, Merlin, The Round Table, The Cid, Titurel, the Holy Grail, and others. This anthology introduced many young people in turn of the century America to these tales.
Author: Yaniv Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1009285033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.
Author: Victoria Flood
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-07-02
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1843847213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.
Author: Niall Cullen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1003806813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explains the genesis and development of the nexus between radical Basque nationalists and Irish republicans, how they have learnt from each other historically, and how they have utilised this relationship, at times, to their benefit. From medieval tales of shared origins to the violent conflicts largely wrought by ETA and the IRA, the Basque Country and Ireland have long been associated in popular imagination. Despite this, little is known of historical Basque-Irish relations and, in particular, the web of party-political, military and social movement connections between radical Basque nationalists and Irish republicans since the Irish Revolutionary Period (1916–23). Drawing on extensive archival research undertaken in Spain, Ireland and the UK, and more than 70 interviews conducted with politicians, former paramilitaries and grassroots activists, this is the first study to comprehensively document and analyse the emergence, evolution and implications of this mythified transnational relationship. Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History will appeal to students and scholars of Irish republicanism, Basque nationalism, terrorism studies and social movements studies, as well as those interested in the contemporary history of Western Europe’s two most volatile regions.
Author: Igor Santos Salazar
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-08-17
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1803275146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK11 essays from both historians and archaeologists achieve a re-reading of a the tenth century, which has been central to the interpretation of the historical development of Europe over the past decade.
Author: Rebecca Thomas
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1843846276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrucial 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: John Kirtland Wright
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-21
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780282941819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Geographical Lore of the Time of the Crusades: A Study in the History of Medieval Science and Tradition in Western Europe I the contribution OF the ancient world (continued) Physical Geography (continued) Subterranean Channels Rivers of the Underworld Origin of Rivers. The Nile Flood The Lands Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Height of Mountains. Mathematical Geography and Mathematical Geography Largely Based on Itineraries Astronomical Determination of Latitude. Astronomical Determination of Longitude Cartography; The Expansion of Regional Knowledge. Expansion of Greek Regional Knowledge. Geography at Alexandria. Hellenistic Regional Knowledge. Regional Knowledge of Mela and Pliny The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Limits of Ancient Regional Knowledge on the South and East. II the contribution OF western christendom before 1100 A. D.. Introduction. Scriptural Influence on Early Medieval Geography Ignorance of the Best Work of Antiquity Scientific Stagnation During the Early Middle Ages. Sources The Bible Writings of the Church Fathers. Interpretation of the Bible. Classical Influences. Encyclopedic Compilations Miscellaneous Geographical Writings. Legends Books of Travel and Description The History Of the Universe. Christianity Opposed to Belief in an Eternal Universe The Creation. Shape and Size of the Earth. Early Christian Belief in a Flat Earth. Early Christian Belief in a Spherical Earth. Size of the Earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Timothy Venning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 1351589164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe uses a wide range of both primary and secondary sources to chart the history of Britain and Western Europe, with reference to the Celtic world, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and North America. Extending from the middle of the fifth century to the Norman Conquest in 1066, the book is divided into five chronologies that present the day-to-day developments of events such as the fall of Rome, the Viking invasion and the military campaigns of King Alfred, as well as charting the cult of the mysterious ‘King Arthur’. Timothy Venning’s accompanying introduction also provides a discussion of the different types of sources used and the development of sources and records throughout these centuries. Tying together the political, cultural and social elements of early medieval Western Europe, this chronology is both detailed and highly accessible, allowing students to trace this complex period and providing them with the perfect reference work for their studies.
