Medieval Europeans: Studies in Ethnic Identity and National Perspectives in Medieval Europe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0333984498 ISBN 13: 9780333984499

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

In this book, a team of leading scholars examine the origins of European ethnic groups which subsequently developed into the nations of Europe. The contributors look at evidence for the existence of an ethnic consciousness among the dominant European groups; this later formed the basis of nation states. The reconstruction and invention of the past by medieval writers in search of ethnic origins for their own particular political or tribal groups is also studied from a literary and historical point of view.

L'autore:

Alfred P. Smyth is professor of Medieval History and Master of Keynes College, University of Kent.

Contenuti:

Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Law and Ethnic Identity in the Western Kingdoms in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries; R.Collins
The Emergence of English Identity: 700-1000; A.P.Smyth
The Making of England and Germany, 850-1050: Points of Comparison and Difference; T.Reuter
National Identity in Medieval Wales; M.Richter
John of Fordun and the Independent Identity of the Scots; B.Webster
Higden's Britain; P.Brown
'National' Requisitioning for 'Public' Use of 'Private' Castles in Pre-Nation State France; C.Coulson
The Trojan Origins of the French: The Commencement of a Myth's Demise, 1450-1520; E.A.R.Brown
The Invention of Rus(sia)(s): Some Remarks on Medieval and Modern Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity; S.Franklin
Civic Pride versus Feelings for Italy in the Age of Dante; T.Hankey
The Notion of Lombard and Lombardy in the Middle Ages; D.Zancani
European Nationality, Race, and Commonwealth in the Writings of Sir Francis Palgrave, 1788-1861; R.Smith
Index