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The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination - Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature (Paperback)
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The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination - Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
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This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan
and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an
'out-of-Scandinavia' legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland)
in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a
focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an
imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting
interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject
Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength
and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed
'national' legends of ancestral origins, showing how an
'out-of-Scandinavia' legend can be found in works by several
familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, 'Fredegar', Paul the
Deacon, Freculph, and AEthelweard. The book investigates how
legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts
and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of
identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the
'out-of-Scandinavia' tale was exploited to promote a legacy of
'barbarian' vigor that could withstand the negative cultural
effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of
perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history,
rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense
critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical
world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of 'the
North' will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval
studies.
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