Germanic Texts and Latin Models - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germanic Texts and Latin Models write by Karin E. Olsen. This book was released on 2001. Germanic Texts and Latin Models available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval writers who 'translated' Latin texts into Germanic vernaculars not only transmitted their originals, but, driven by individualistic impulses and cultural conventions, also transformed them. This process of domesticating texts was fundamentally creative and might more accurately be described as 'reconstruction'. The essays in Germanic Texts and Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions explore the ways in which Latin texts and traditions were reconstructed in Old English, Old Icelandic and Old High German and cover a range of genres: legal texts, genealogies, histories, and poetry. They examine how medieval Germanic authors negotiated the need to transmit their models while at the same time fulfilling their own political, artistic and didactic objectives in the creation of vernacular texts. These new studies demonstrate the variety of ways in which medieval Germanic texts were indebted to their Latin exemplars, while reflecting their new culturally specific circumstances in the complex nexus of Latin learning and Germanic lore.
Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)
Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) write by Stephan Elspaß. This book was released on 2011-07-26. Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten ‘big’ as well as ‘small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ write by Matthias Friedrich. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.
Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250
Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 write by Kate McGrath. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in violence, while at the same time deploying a shared emotional language that also allowed them to condemn other types of displays. These texts are particularly concerned about displays of anger in regard to suppressing revolt, ensuring justice, protecting honor, and respecting the status of kingship. In all of these areas, the role of ecclesiastical and lay counsel forms an important limit on the growth and expansion of royal prerogatives.
The Long Morning of Medieval Europe
The Long Morning of Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Morning of Medieval Europe write by Jennifer R. Davis. This book was released on 2008. The Long Morning of Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars from Europe and North America convened at Harvard University in 2004 for an interdisciplinary conference aimed at Rethinking the Early Middle Ages. What are the issues and techniques of research defining the field today, and what will they be tom
