Saxon Identities, AD 150–900 (Studies in Early Medieval - download pdf or read online

By Robert Flierman

This learn is the 1st up to date entire research of Continental Saxon id in antiquity and the early heart a while. construction on contemporary scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this research emphasises not only the developed and open-ended nature of Saxon id, but in addition the the most important position performed through texts as tools and assets of identity-formation. This publication strains this technique of identity-formation over the process 8 centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention within the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony.

even though the Saxons have been pointed out as early as advert a hundred and fifty, they left no written proof in their personal earlier than c. 840. therefore, for the 1st seven centuries, we will be able to in basic terms examine the Saxons during the eyes in their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. Such exterior views don't yield goal descriptions of a humans, yet really replicate an ongoing discourse on Saxon id, within which outdoors authors defined who they imagined, sought after or feared the Saxons to be: risky pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or trustworthy topics. considerably, those open air perspectives deeply motivated how ninth-century Saxons ultimately got here to contemplate themselves, utilizing Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent the Saxons as a noble and Christian people.

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