Wiggleworks Stage D - Ibis: a True Whale Story by John Kimmelman

Wiggleworks Stage D - Ibis: a True Whale Story by John Kimmelman

This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of Saxon identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. This book traces this process of identity-formation over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony.

Though the Saxons were mentioned as early as AD 150, they left no written evidence of their own before c. 840. Thus, for the first seven centuries, we can only look at the Saxons through the eyes of their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. Such external perspectives do not yield objective descriptions of a people, but rather reflect an ongoing discourse on Saxon identity, in which outside authors described who they imagined, wanted or feared the Saxons to be: dangerous pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or faithful subjects. Significantly, these outside views deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons eventually came to think about themselves, using Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent the Saxons as a noble and Christian people.

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ISBN 13	9780590428491
ISBN 10	0590428497
Title	Wiggleworks Stage D - Ibis: a True Whale Story
Author	John Kimmelman
Series	Wiggleworks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scholastic Australia
Year published	2016-06-07
Number of pages	32
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