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Barbara Newman: Origin Legends, 5 March 2026

The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland 
by Lindy Brady.
Cambridge, 272 pp., £25.99, May 2024, 978 1 009 22563 2
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... where the academic action is. Entering the vigorous debate over the origins of nationalism, Lindy Brady maintains that it was not in fact a medieval construct. As she argues in The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, when medieval historians traced the genesis of the islands’ four peoples, they rarely claimed ethnic superiority ...

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