Medieval Europeans : studies in ethnic identity and national perspectives in Medieval Europe / edited by Alfred P. Smyth

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxi, 284 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-276) and index. Contents; Law and ethnic identity in the Western Kingdoms in the fifth and sixth centuries / Roger Collins -- The emergence of English identity, 700-1000 / Alfred P. Smyth -- The making of England and Germany, 850-1050: points of comparison and difference / Timothy Reuter -- National identity in medieval Wales / Michael Richter -- John of Fordun and the independent identity of the Scots / Bruce Webster -- Higden's Britain / Peter Brown -- 'National' requisitioning for 'public' use of 'private' castles in pre-nation state France / Charles Coulson -- The Trojan origins of the French: the commencement of a myth's demise, 1450-1520 / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The invention of Rus(sia)(s): some remarks on medieval and modern perceptions of continuity and discontinuity / Simon Franklin -- Civic pride versus feelings for Italy in the age of Dante / Teresa Hankey -- The notion of' Lombard' and 'Lombardy' in the Middle Ages / Diego Zancani -- European nationality, race and commonwealth in the writings of Sir Francis Palgrave, 1788-1861 / Roger Smith. Subjects; Ethnicity Europe History. Nationalism Europe History. Middle Ages. Ethnology Europe History.