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Gods, Heroes, and Kings The Battle for Mythic Britain Hardcover - 2001

by Christopher R. Fee; David A. Leeming


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The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves
displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of
gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and
Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a
Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation
from the original sources, Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

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The word pantheon comes from the Greek pan theon, meaning literally "all the gods."

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  • Title Gods, Heroes, and Kings The Battle for Mythic Britain
  • Author Christopher R. Fee; David A. Leeming
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford ; New York
  • Date October 18, 2001
  • ISBN 9780195134797

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Christopher Fee is Assistant Professor of English at Gettysburg College and author of Torture and Text in Anglo-Saxon England. David A. Leeming is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His books include Myths, Legends and Folktales (OUP,
1999), Mythology (OUP, 1998), and, with Jake Page, God: Myths of the Male Divine and Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine (both OUP, 1996).
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