Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe (Reading Medieval Sources)

Brady, Lindy (EDT)/ Wadden, Patrick (EDT)

Brill（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 474 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004400368

Full Description

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 a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part I (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts from the areas under this volume's purview. Part II (Themes) identifies key themes that appear in origin legends and introduces new arguments on a wide range of early medieval material. The chapters in Part III (Approaches) conclude the volume by highlighting a range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to origin legends.

Contributors are Lindy Brady, Erica Buchberger, Thomas Charles-Edwards, Michael Clarke, Marios Costambeys, Katherine Cross, Helen Fulton, Shami Ghosh, Ben Guy, Judith Jesch, Catherine E. Karkov, Robert Kasperski, John D. Niles, Conor O'Brien, Alheydis Plassmann, Andrew Rabin, Helmut Reimitz, Robert W. Rix, and Patrick Wadden.

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

 Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden

PART 1: Regions

2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville's Writings

 Erica Buchberger

3 Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain

 T.M. Charles-Edwards

4 Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages

 Marios Costambeys

5 Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney

 Judith Jesch

6 The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes

 Robert Kasperski

7 The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500-800 C.E.

 Helmut Reimitz

PART 2: Themes

8 The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries

 Michael Clarke

9 Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise

 Catherine E. Karkov

10 The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends

 Conor O'Brien

11 Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity

 Robert W. Rix

12 Oral Tradition and Origin Legends

 Shami Ghosh

PART 3: Approaches

13 Origin Legends and Objects

 Katherine Cross

14 Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval Britain and Ireland

 Helen Fulton

15 Origin Legends and Genealogy

 Ben Guy

16 Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth?

 John D. Niles

17 Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome

 Alheydis Plassmann

18 Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory's Decem libri historiarum

 Andrew Rabin

19 Conclusion

 Lindy Brady and Patrick Wadden

Index