Important Germanic institutions survived from the Anglo-Saxon period, however. This web site, which was constructed by Ee-Ing Ong after consultation with Geoffrey Russom, provides access to a variety of internet resources on early Celtic and Germanic cultures. No attempt has been made to filter or censor materials available here, which may vary in quality. You will notice that some contributions are from amateur enthusiasts, while others have a more scholarly character. Many sites provide uncontroversial information of a sort that would be hard to duplicate in an affordable set of textbooks.
Images representing details of daily life such as clothing can be especially informative.
Some of the contributors struggle against outdated but still powerful ideas from the 19th-century Romantic period, when a problematic concept of national identity was put forward. Notorious 20th-century political movements such as fascism carried this type of historical propaganda to extremes that might be characterized as laughable if they had not been so horribly destructive. Present-day scholars are more inclined to represent their work as a process of ongoing discovery. The Norse Back to the Brown Medieval Studies homepage. Brown University Homepage .