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Saxon Identities, AD 150–900
Dr Robert Flierman
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Hardback. Series: Studies in Early Medieval History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, 4 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of Saxon identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. This book traces this process of identity-formation over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony. Though the Saxons were mentioned as early as AD 150, they left no ... Read more
This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of Saxon identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. This book traces this process of identity-formation over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony. Though the Saxons were mentioned as early as AD 150, they left no ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies in Early Medieval History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350019454
SKU
V9781350019454
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About Dr Robert Flierman
Robert Flierman is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Reviews for Saxon Identities, AD 150–900
Robert Flierman’s original discussion of perceptions of the people labelled ‘Saxons’ in antiquity and the early middle ages neatly and convincingly addresses texts as instruments of identity formation. The development of views of the Saxons as disparate groups of ‘barbarian’ outsiders in Roman texts to their being regarded, in Merovingian sources at least, as a well-defined people, is ... Read more