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Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia - The Bard and the Rag-picker (Hardcover)
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Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia - The Bard and the Rag-picker (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts
like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in
alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger
ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history
and the biblical epic. These modes employed the conceit of their
participating in a tradition of oral verse for a variety of
purposes: from political propaganda to constructing origin myths
for early medieval nationhood or heroic masculinity, and sometimes
for challenging these paradigms. The more complex of these
historical visions actively meditated on their own relationship to
truthfulness and fictionality while also performing sophisticated
(and often subversive) cultural and socio-emotional work for its
audiences. By rethinking canonical categories of historiographical
discourse from within medieval textual productions, Vernacular
Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and
the Rag-Picker aims to recover a part of the wide array of
narrative poetic forms through which medieval communities made
sense of their past and structured their socio-emotional
experience.
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