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Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England by Nicholas Howe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England about?
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.
Who reads Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nicholas Howe
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300045123
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
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