Barbarians, maps, and historiography : studies on the early medieval West /: studies on the early medieval West. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Walter Goffart.
• Authors: Goffart, Walter, 1934-
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Two notes on Germanic antiquity today; What's wrong with the map of barbarian invasions?; The map of barbarian invasions: a preliminary report; The map of barbarian invasions: a longer look; Does the Vita S. Severini have an underside?; Conspicuously absent: martial heroism in the Histories of Gregory of Tours and its likes; Bede's Uera lex historiae explained; The Historia ecclesiastica: Bede's agenda and ours; Bede's History in a harsher climate; Paul the Deacon's Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium and the early design of Charlemagne's succession; Charters earlier than 800 from French collections; Le problème des Translationes S. Liborii; The first venture into 'medieval geography': Lambarde's map of the Saxon heptarchy (1568); Hetware and Hugas: datable anachronisms in Beowulf; The name 'Meringovian' and the dating of Beowulf; Christian pessimism on the walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche; Addenda; Additional articles (annotated list); Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 940.1072; Middle Ages -- Historiography; Historiography -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Cartography -- Europe -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000948301
• Related ISBNs: 9781000941562
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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