Migration Mythmaking Anglo Saxon Engla

By Nicholas Howe

Book Overview

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026803463X
• ISBN13: 9780268034634
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"