Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

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Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Name: Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780300045123

Nicholas Howe

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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.

Categories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Year:

1989

Edition:

1st

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

0300045123