This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.
The Idea of North
May 31, 2012 By
Tacitus’s two important treatises, vital as sources for our knowledge of the life of the Anglo-Saxons, represent a people who know their limits and stick to them.
Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies
February 8, 2012 By
Today’s nationalist movements in many eastern European countries have rediscovered the nineteenth-century ideal of the homogeneous nation-state; it is sad to see that after so many tragedies it has brought about, some more seem to follow, and often in the name of history.
Homo viator et narrans judaicus – Medieval Jewish Voices in the European Narrative of the Wandering Jew
December 1, 2010 By
Homo viator et narrans judaicus – Medieval Jewish Voices in the European Narrative of the Wandering Jew Hasan-Rokem, Galit The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship Alumni Magazine (2008) Abstract Scholarly treatments of Jewish medieval travelogues have addressed these texts fore mostly as historical and ethnographic documents. They have rarely been appreciated for the literary talent and craftsmanship […]
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