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 identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.
- ISBN13 9780268034634
- Publish Date 15 April 2001 (first published 10 September 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 November 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Notre Dame Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English