Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia - The Bard and the Rag-picker

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Catalin Taranu
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-71108-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-367-71108-7
Barcode:	9780367711085

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