Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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Adventus Saxonum
Alfredian Translation
Anglo-Saxon historiography
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Bately Notes
battle
Bede's Narrative
Bede’s Narrative
Brice's Day
Brice’s Day
British
British Language
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Christianization narratives
culture
Ealdorman Byrhtnoth
early medieval law codes
england
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Ethno Religious Order
Gens Anglorum
Gens Normannorum
Germanic Christianity
Historia Brittonum
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Latin Exemplar
lupi
maldon
medieval ethnogenesis
Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon
Northey Island
Old English identity
Past Tense
premodern race concepts in literature
sermo
Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos
studies
textual
tribal community formation
Trojan Origins
Vice Versa
Viking Advances
west
West Saxon
Wulfstan's Sermo
Wulfstan's Sermon
Wulfstan’s Sermo
Wulfstan’s Sermon
Product details
- ISBN 9780415865104
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What makes English literature English ? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race from Old English to its nineteenth-century critical reception. Literary voices in the England of Bede understood the limits of community primarily as racial or tribal, in keeping with the perceived divine division of peoples after their languages, and the extension of Christianity to Bede's Germanic neighbours was effected in part through metaphors of family and race. Harris demonstrates how King Alfred adapted Bede in the ninth century; how both exerted an effect on Archbishop Wulfstan in the eleventh; and how Old English poetry speaks to images of race.
Stephen Harris teaches Old English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published on the Venerable Bede and on King Alfred, most recently in Criticism and the Journal of English and GermanicPhilology.
