Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon ‘migration myth’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11452017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Battles (Hanover College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Pages | 43-66 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675100002404 |
| OpenAlex | W1993716214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
In his study of Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England , Nicholas Howe has argued that the Anglo-Saxons regarded the ancestral migration from the Continent as ‘the founding and defining event of their culture’. He suggests that the adventus Saxonum gave the Germanic tribes in England a shared identity, and proved central to their historical, cultural and even theological self-definition. Howe investigates what he calls the Anglo-Saxon ‘migration myth’, which links the Germanic tribal migration to England with the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, both being transmarine journeys from a land of spiritual bondage to one of spiritual salvation. Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England traces the development of this concept from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica to Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi , and discusses its function in the writings of Alcuin and Boniface, as well as in Old English poetry. Howe's elegant analysis succeeds in demonstrating the pervasiveness of migration as a cultural myth, that is, a story that endures in a people's memory because it speaks powerfully to their collective imagination
Ancient history · Anglo saxon · Archaeology · Art · Israelites · Literature · Mythology · Old English · Poetry · Classics · History · Medieval Literature and History
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The Latin textual basis of Genesis A
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Comparative Research on Oral Traditions
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |