Schustereder, Stefan J.
Strategies of Identity Construction

The Writings of Gildas, Aneirin and Bede.

Based on an analysis of a variety of early medieval writings from Britain, including De Excidio et Conquestu Brittaniae by the Briton Gildas, the early Welsh collection of stanzas commonly referred to as Y Gododdin, and the Venerable Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, his Historia Abbatum and Chronica Maior, Strategies of Identity Construction provides evidence of an active and productive medieval discourse of ethnic and political identity construction in Britain. The book demonstrates that different gentes, even competing peoples, use the same strategies to construct and communicate their identities. 281 Seiten, gebunden (Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike; Band 18/V&R Unipress/Bonn University Press 2015) leicht berieben/slightly rubbed