Vernacular verse histories in early medieval england and francia: the bard and the rag-picker
Auteur :
Taranu, Catalin
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367711085
Date de publication :
31 mai 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.