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Medieval Europeans

Studies in Ethnic Identity and National Perspectives in Medieval Europe

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  • © 1998

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  1. Alfred P. Smyth

    1. Windsor Castle, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Law and Ethnic Identity in the Western Kingdoms in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Emergence of English Identity, 700–1000

    • Alfred P. Smyth
    Pages 24-52

  4. The Making of England and Germany, 850–1050: Points of Comparison and Difference

    • Timothy Reuter
    Pages 53-70

  5. National Identity in Medieval Wales

    • Michael Richter
    Pages 71-84

  6. John of Fordun and the Independent Identity of the Scots

    • Bruce Webster
    Pages 85-102

  7. Higden’s Britain

    • Peter Brown
    Pages 103-118

  8. ‘National’ Requisitioning for ‘Public’ Use of ‘Private’ Castles in Pre-Nation State France

    • Charles Coulson
    Pages 119-134

  9. The Trojan Origins of the French: The Commencement of a Myth’s Demise, 1450–1520

    • Elizabeth A. R. Brown
    Pages 135-179

  10. The Invention of Rus(sia)(s): Some Remarks on Medieval and Modern Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity

    • Simon Franklin
    Pages 180-195

  11. Civic Pride versus Feelings for Italy in the Age of Dante

    • Teresa Hankey
    Pages 196-216

  12. The Notion of ‘Lombard’ and ‘Lombardy’ in the Middle Ages

    • Diego Zancani
    Pages 217-232

  13. European Nationality, Race and Commonwealth in the Writings of Sir Francis Palgrave, 1788–1861

    • Roger Smith
    Pages 233-253

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 254-284
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A team of leading scholars in the fields of Medieval Literature and History examine the origins of European ethnic groups which subsequently developed into the nations of Europe. The contributors look at evidence for the existence of an ethnic consciousness among the dominant European groups; this later formed the basis of nation states. The reconstruction and invention of the past by medieval writers in search of ethnic origins for their own particular political or tribal groups is also studied from a literary and historical point of view.

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  • Windsor Castle, UK

    Alfred P. Smyth

About the editor

ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN Professor of Medieval History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York PETER BROWN Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, Darwin College, University of Kent at Canterbury ROGER COLLINS Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh CHARLES COULSON Honorary Research Fellow, University of Kent at Canterbury SIMON FRANKLIN Lecturer in Medieval Russian Literature, Clare College, University of Cambridge TERESA HANKEY Reader in Italian, Keynes College, University of Kent at Canterbury TIMOTHY REUTER Professor of Medieval History, University of Southampton MICHAEL RICHTER Professor of Medieval History, University of Konstanz, Germany ROGER SMITH Senior Lecturer in History, Christ Church College, Canterbury BRUCE WEBSTER Honorary Research Fellow and former Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent at Canterbury DIEGO ZANCANI Professor of Italian, Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

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