William Bradford and His Anglo-Saxon Influences
This paper examines how William Bradford’s On Plymouth Plantation attempts to link the Anglo-Saxon myth of migration and the notion of Christendom in a temporally identical socio-historical memory to promote a primarily national cause. Ultimately, Bradford’s text emerges as an historical document th...
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| description | This paper examines how William Bradford’s On Plymouth Plantation attempts to link the Anglo-Saxon myth of migration and the notion of Christendom in a temporally identical socio-historical memory to promote a primarily national cause. Ultimately, Bradford’s text emerges as an historical document that sought provide the foundation for an Anglo-Saxon-based Christendom linked historically, not simply geographically. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-87291add2d2843c684c5b74b1da923882023-06-13T12:10:51ZengCBS Open JournalsAmerican Studies in Scandinavia0044-80602014-09-0146210.22439/asca.v46i2.5135William Bradford and His Anglo-Saxon InfluencesMichael Modarelli0Walsh University, OhioThis paper examines how William Bradford’s On Plymouth Plantation attempts to link the Anglo-Saxon myth of migration and the notion of Christendom in a temporally identical socio-historical memory to promote a primarily national cause. Ultimately, Bradford’s text emerges as an historical document that sought provide the foundation for an Anglo-Saxon-based Christendom linked historically, not simply geographically.https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5135 |
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