Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World by Philip Shaw

Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World by Philip Shaw

This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spheres of activity, such as fertility or warfare, rather than considering the extent to which goddesses are rooted in localities and social structures - such local religious manifestations are more important to Germanic paganisms than is often supposed, and should caution us against assumptions of pan-Germanic traditional beliefs. Linguistic and onomastic evidence is not always well integrated into discussions of historical developments in the early Middle Ages, and this book provides both an introduction to the models and methods employed throughout, and a model for further research into the linguistic evidence for traditional beliefs among the Germanic-speaking communities of early medieval Europe.

It offers a fresh and productive method for examining fragmentary data for Anglo-Saxon (and, by implication, other pre-Christian) religionIt is a welcome contribution and should find a place in university libraries and on the shelves of early medievalists in general. -- Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney * The Historian *

Philip A. Shaw is Lecturer in English Language and Old English, University of Leicester, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780715637975
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Title	Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World
Author	Philip Shaw
Series	Studies In Early Medieval History
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bristol Classical Press
Year published	2011-08-25
Number of pages	128
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