{"product_id":"origin-legends-in-early-medieval-western-europe-9789004400368","title":"Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210776011095,"sku":"9789004400368","price":189.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/origin-legends-in-early-medieval-western-europe-9789004400368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}