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This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of unders…
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Framing history -- Chapter One: Textual connections -- Chapter Two: Exile -- Chapter Three: Kin-slaying -- Chapter Four: Intermarriage and incest -- Chapter Five: Early medieval origin legends in early modern histories -- Conclusion: Origin lege…
The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these peoples' origin stories, an…