Medievalists.net » Germania http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Making Sacrifices: Beowulf and Film http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/making-sacrifices-beowulf-film/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/making-sacrifices-beowulf-film/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:05:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51230 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/making-sacrifices-beowulf-film/feed/ 0 Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:26:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51152 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/feed/ 0 Quid Tacitus . . . ? The Germania and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/06/quid-tacitus-germania-study-anglo-saxon-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/06/quid-tacitus-germania-study-anglo-saxon-england/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:31:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50166 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.

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