Engaging Moments
Subtitle: The Origins of Medieval Bridal-quest Narrative (Reallexikon Der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Erganzungsband)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9783110184501
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; European - German; Franconia; Germanic literature; Germany; History and criticism; Latin literature, Medieval and modern; Scandinavian literature
First sentence: There are four early medieval chronicles that became most influential on contemporary as well as subsequent historical and fictional writing in the Germanic world, the so-called histories of the gentes: Jordanes' De origine actibusque Getarum (or: Getica), (completed 551), Gregory of Tours' His-toriamm libri decem (or: Historia Francorum), (ca. 575-590), Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (completed 731-32), and Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum (completed 796-99).