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by Robert Flierman| 2017| 292 pages| 4.1| English

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This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of the construction of Continental Saxon identity in late antique and early medieval writing. It traces this process over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest roots in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries of ninth-century Saxony. Building on recent scholarship, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of barbarian identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation.Though mentioned as early as AD 150, the Saxons left no written evidence of their own before c. 840. Thus, for the first seven centuries, we can only look at Saxon identity through the eyes of their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. What we encounter when we attempt this, is not an objective description of a people, but an ongoing literary discourse on what outside authors imagined, wanted or feared the Saxons to be: dangerous pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or faithful subjects. Significantly, these outside views deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons eventually came to write about themselves following their conquest and conversion by the Frankish king Charlemagne, relying on Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent themselves as members of a noble and Christian people.

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Author:Robert Flierman
Publication Year:2017
ISBN:9781350019454
Pages:292
Language:English
File Size:4.1
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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