Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Howe, Nicholas:

ISBN 10: 026803463X / ISBN 13: 9780268034634

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026803463X
• ISBN 13: 9780268034634
• Binding: Broschiert
• Weight: 350 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anglistik

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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 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).