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dc.contributor.authorCusack, Carole M.
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-27
dc.date.available2010-04-27
dc.date.issued1984-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/6081
dc.description.abstractThis thesis concerns the (more or less) systematic rehabilitation of the Viking Period, which was undertaken by a collection of poets and philologists, scholars and amateurs, from the latter half of the eighteenth century through the Victorian Era into the twentieth century. The reasons underlying their efforts were, in both the broad and the narrow sense, political. For example, William Morris was a Socialist, and he employed his knowledge of pre-Christian Scandinavian society in the development of a Socialist Utopia. Similarly, William Stubbs was an authority on the Anglo-Saxon legal system, and this enabled him to convincingly argue for the Germanic origin of the English democratic institutions. The works discussed range from crude propaganda to painstakingly accurate translations, and as such there are varying levels of subtlety in their ideological messages.en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.rightsThe author retains copyright of this thesis.en
dc.subjectViking Ageen_AU
dc.subjectideologyen_AU
dc.subjectreligionen_AU
dc.subjectscholarshipen_AU
dc.subjectAryanismen_AU
dc.subjectWilliam Morrisen_AU
dc.titleAn Examination of the Ideologies Underlying Nineteenth Century Scholarly Researches into the Viking Ageen_AU
dc.typeThesis, Honoursen_AU
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Studies in Religionen_AU


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