Migration and mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
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Migration and mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
University of Notre Dame Press, c2001
- : pbk
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Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Prss, c1989
With a new introduction to this paperback ed
Bibliography: p.181-193
Includes index
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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.
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