The Beowulf manuscript : complete texts ; and the fight at Finnsburg /
This volume sets Beowulf in a unique and unprecedented context, For the first time in the long history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript, the prose of The Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East and The Letter of...
| Uniform Title: | Beowulf. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
| Language Notes: | In Old English with a facing modern English translation. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ;
3. |
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| Summary: | This volume sets Beowulf in a unique and unprecedented context, For the first time in the long history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript, the prose of The Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East and The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, and (following Beowulf) the verse of Judith. First-time readers as well as established scholars can now gain new insights into Beowulf and the four other texts by approaching each in its original setting. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 374 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674052956 0674052951 |