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Writing the Barbarian Past examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and vernacular historical narratives composed between c.550 and c.1000: the Gothic histories of Jordanes and Isidore of Seville, the Fredegar chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, Waltharius, and Beowulf; it also examines the evidence for an oral vernacular tradition of historical narrative in this period.
In this book, Shami Ghosh analyses the relative significance granted to the Roman and non-Roman inheritances in narratives of the distant past, and what the use of this past reveals about the historical consciousness of early medieval elites, and demonstrates that for them, cultural identity was conceived of in less binary terms than in most modern scholarship.
In this book, Shami Ghosh analyses the relative significance granted to the Roman and non-Roman inheritances in narratives of the distant past, and what the use of this past reveals about the historical consciousness of early medieval elites, and demonstrates that for them, cultural identity was conceived of in less binary terms than in most modern scholarship.
Price: $222.00
Pages: 318
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages
Publication Date:
06 November 2015
ISBN: 9789004305229
Format: Hardcover
"This is a significant study which will add nuance to the engagement of scholars with the thorny issues of identity, ethnicity and the perception of the past in the Early Middle Ages… The quality of Ghosh’s scholarship and the deep maturity of his arguments, which he demonstrates with his chosen texts, will ensure that this work will remain a sine qua non of the literature for some time to come. He has pointed the way to further useful engagement with the sources that will be a productive avenue for future research and researchers."
Christopher Heath, University of Manchester, in: al-Masaq 29.3 (2017), 273-4.
Christopher Heath, University of Manchester, in: al-Masaq 29.3 (2017), 273-4.
Shami Ghosh, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, has published numerous articles on medieval and early modern cultural, social, and economic, and literary history. His first book, Kings’ Sagas and Norwegian History: Problems and Perspectives, was published by Brill in 2011.