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History Great Britain

Racial Myth in English History

Trojans, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons

by (author) Hugh A. MacDougall

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1982
Category
Great Britain, Ancient & Classical, Folklore & Mythology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887722127
    Publish Date
    Apr 1982
    List Price
    $17.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887722110
    Publish Date
    Apr 1982
    List Price
    $35.00

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Myths of origin enable people to locate themselves in time and space. They offer an explanation of the unknown and hallow traditions by linking them to heroic events and personages of the distant past. In addition, they form the ground for belief systems or ideologies which, providing a moral validation for attitudes and activities, bind men together in a society writes the author, who in his interesting and solidly based short study synthesizes several generations of English and continental scholarship in a way that enables a broad readership to obtain a clearer recognition of those elements in accepted mythologies which both unite and divide men. Published in English.

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