The Dating of Beowulf

A Reassessment
Herausgeber: Neidorf, Leonard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781843843870
• ISBN-10: 1843843870
• Artikelnr.: 40586083

Autorenporträt

Leonard Neidorf

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Beowulf and Language History
R D Fulk Germanic Legend, Scribal Errors, and Cultural Change
Leonard Neidorf Names in Beowulf and Anglo
Saxon England
Tom Shippey The Limits of Conservative Composition in Old English Poetry
Megan E. Hartman The Date of Composition of Beowulf and the Evidence of Metrical Evolution
Thomas A. Bredehoft Beowulf and the Containment of Scyld in the West Saxon Royal Genealogy
Dennis Cronan History and Fiction in the Frisian Raid
Frederick M. Biggs 'Give the People What They Want': Historiography and Rhetorical History of the Dating of Beowulf Controversy
Michael D. C Drout 'Give the People What They Want': Historiography and Rhetorical History of the Dating of Beowulf Controversy
Emily Bowman 'Give the People What They Want': Historiography and Rhetorical History of the Dating of Beowulf Controversy
Phoebe Boyd A Note on the Other Heorot
Joseph Harris Beowulf and Conversion History
Thomas D Hill Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts
Rafael J. Pascual Scandals in Toronto: Kaluza's Law and Transliteration Errors
George Clark Afterword: Beowulf and Everything Else
Allen J. Frantzen