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A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and ide…
Die Dryoper: eine Untersuchung der Überlieferung
by Strid, Ove
fromActa Universitatis Upsaliensis
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Type: Book
Die Dryoper: eine Untersuchung der Überlieferung
by Strid, Ove
fromActa Universitatis Upsaliensis
0
Type: Book
Based on a doctoral dissertation in international law at the U. of Cambridge (UK), this work examines the concepts of "sovereignty" and "Westphalia" (as in the peace congress that ended the Thirty Years War in Europe and upon which the basis of "sovereignty" rests) as historical…
"This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films, are based. It is both an interpretative structure through which explanations of the war and defeat have …
Retells the stories central to every culture that have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Coverage extends from the well-known tales of the Ancient Greeks, which hold the key to the origin of such phrases as "Achille's heel," to the lesser-kno…
