Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England - Hardcover

Howe, Professor Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300045123 ISBN 13: 9780300045123

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1989

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

NICHOLAS HOWE is professor of English at Ohio State University and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In addition to many published articles and essays, Howe is the author of The Old English Catalogue Poems (1985), editor of Irving Howe's Critic's Notebook (1995), and co-editor of Words and Works (1998).

Review:

"Howe's book is of value not only to scholars of medieval English literature but highly suitable for mythographers, cultural historians, anthropologists, and theologians. Documentation is thorough, and most footnotes are annotated; the bibliography is exhaustive. This study complements Howe's previous scholarship and assumes, by its authority and integrity of presentation, the status of a standard in contemporary scholarship relevant to Anglo-Saxon England." - Renaissance and Reformation"

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0300045123
• ISBN 13: 9780300045123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198