Saxon identities, AD 150-900
Robert Flierman
Bok Engelsk 2017
Omfang | xi, 274 Seiten : 3 Karten
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Opplysninger | Includes bibliographical references and index. - "This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of the construction of continental Saxon identity in late antique and early medieval writing. It traces this process over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest roots in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries of ninth-century Saxony. Building on recent scholarship, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of barbarian identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. Though mentioned as early as AD 150, the Saxons left no written evidence of their own before c. 840. Thus, for the first seven centuries, we can only look at Saxon identity through the eyes of their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. What we encounter when we attempt this, is not an objective description of a people, but an ongoing literary discourse on what outside authors imagined, wanted or feared the Saxons to be: dangerous pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or faithful subjects. Significantly, these outside views deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons eventually came to write about themselves following their conquest and conversion by the Frankish King Charlemagne, relying on Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent themselves as members of a noble and Christian people"--. - 1. The Most Ferocious of Enemies : Saxons from a Roman Perspective -- 2. Rebels, Subjects, Neighbours : Saxons from a Frankish Perspective -- 3. Gens perfida or populus Christianus? : the Saxons and the Saxon Wars in Carolingian Historiography -- 4. From Defeat to Salvation : Remembering the Saxon Wars in Carolingian Saxony
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Emner | Ethnicity - History - Historiography - Europe
Latin literature - History and criticism Literature, Medieval - History and criticism Saxons - Ethnic identity - Historiography Vis mer... Saxons - Historiography
Ethnizität : (DE-601)10459148X : (DE-588)4220764-2 Ethnizität : (DE-601)10459148X : (DE-588)4220764-2 Etnisitet : (NO-TrBIB)HUME08133 Historiografi : (NO-TrBIB)HUME04094 Latinsk litteratur : (NO-TrBIB)HUME06936 Litteratur : (NO-TrBIB)HUME06452 Sachsen : (DE-601)106081500 : (DE-588)4076935-5 Sachsen : (DE-601)104725966 : (DE-588)4118199-2 Saksere : (NO-TrBIB)HUME00987 |
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ISBN | 9781350019454 : hardback. - 9781350019461 (electronic) : ePUB. - 9781350019478 (electronic) : PDF
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