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Making Sacrifices: Beowulf and Film

July 21, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay reviews opening scenes in some recent film Beowulfs, which, although they have nothing at all to say about Scyld Scefing, suggest a sacrificial reading of the prologue and perhaps even the whole poem.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Beowulf, Denmark, Early Middle Ages, Epistemology, Film, Germania, Literature, Medievalism, Old English, Old Norse, Paganism, Poetry, Scandinavia, Scylding/ Skjöldung, The Thirteenth Warrior, Vikings

Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

July 16, 2014 By Medievalists.net

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.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingians, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, Ethnography, Fall of the Roman Empire, Fifth Century, Franks, Germania, Getica, Goths, Greek, Herwig Wolfram, Historiography, History of the Lombards, Italo-Greek, Italy, Jordanes, Lombards, Nationalism, Odoacer, Patrick Amory, Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus), Roman Empire, Sixth Century

Quid Tacitus . . . ? The Germania and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England

June 6, 2014 By Medievalists.net

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This paper considers the vexed historiography of Tacitus’s Germania and its reception history, first among German and other European historians and then among Anglo-Saxonists.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon, Early Middle Ages, England, Europe, Germania, Germany, Historiography, Literature, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Nationalism, Ninth Century, Poetry, Renaissance, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Tacitus