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Title:

The dating of Beowulf : a reassessment / edited by Leonard Neidorf.

Publisher:

D.S. Brewer,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Beowulf--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English (Old)--Chronology.
Manuscripts, English (Old)
Manuscript dating.

Other Authors:

Neidorf, Leonard, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

13. Afterword : Beowulf and everything else / Allen J. Frantzen. 2. Germanic legend, scribal Errors, and cultural change / Leonard Neidorf -- 3. Names in Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon England / Tom Shippey -- 4. The limits of conservative composition in Old English poetry / Megan E. Hartman -- 5. The date of composition of Beowulf and the evidence of metrical evolution / Thomas A. Bredehoft -- 6. Beowulf and the containment of Scyld in the West Saxon royal genealogy / Dennis Cronan -- 7. History and fiction in the Frisian Raid / Frederick M. Biggs -- 8. 'Give the people what they want' : historiography and rhetorical history of the dating of Beowulf controversy / Michael D.C. Drout ; with Phoebe Boyd and Emily Bowman -- 9. A note on the other Heorot / Joseph Harris -- 10. Beowulf and conversion history / Thomas D. Hill -- 11. Material monsters and semantic shifts / Rafael J. Pascual -- 12. Scandals in Toronto : Kaluza's law and transliteration errors / George Clark -- 13. Afterword : Beowulf and everything else / Allen J. Frantzen.

Series:

Anglo-Saxon studies, 1475-2468 ; 24

ISBN:

1843843870 (acid-free paper)
9781843843870 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)873007229

LCCN:

2013497523

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)