Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript

Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
Author: Kevin S. Kiernan
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472084127

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Takes the crowning work of medieval Britain into the twenty-first century

The Beowulf Manuscript

The Beowulf Manuscript
Author: R. D. Fulk
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780674052956

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R.D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. --Book Jacket.

Pride and Prodigies

Pride and Prodigies
Author: Andy Orchard
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802085830

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In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

The Transmission of Beowulf

The Transmission of  Beowulf
Author: Leonard Neidorf
Publsiher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781501708275

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Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite authorship? How substantially did scribes alter the text during its transmission, and how much time elapsed between composition and preservation? Neidorf answers these questions by distinguishing linguistic and metrical regularities, which originate with the Beowulf poet, from patterns of textual corruption, which descend from copyists involved in the poem’s transmission. He argues, on the basis of archaic features that pervade Beowulf and set it apart from other Old English poems, that the text preserved in the sole extant manuscript (ca. 1000) is essentially the work of one poet who composed it circa 700. Of course, during the poem’s written transmission, several hundred scribal errors crept into its text. These errors are interpreted in the central chapters of the book as valuable evidence for language history, cultural change, and scribal practice. Neidorf’s analysis reveals that the scribes earnestly attempted to standardize and modernize the text’s orthography, but their unfamiliarity with obsolete words and ancient heroes resulted in frequent errors. The Beowulf manuscript thus emerges from his study as an indispensible witness to processes of linguistic and cultural change that took place in England between the eighth and eleventh centuries. An appendix addresses J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, which was published in 2014. Neidorf assesses Tolkien’s general views on the transmission of Beowulf and evaluates his position on various textual issues.

Beowulf

Beowulf
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780486111100

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Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.

Communal Creativity in the Making of the Beowulf Manuscript

Communal Creativity in the Making of the  Beowulf  Manuscript
Author: Simon C. Thomson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Beowulf
ISBN: 9004360859

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(Re)introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex -- The passion of Saint Christopher -- The wonders of the East -- The letter of Alexander to Aristotle -- Beowulf -- Judith -- Reading the Nowell Codex in the Eleventh Century -- Reconstructing the Nowell Codex -- Dating and placing the scribes of the Nowell Codex -- Extant gatherings -- Judith, St Christopher and the missing gatherings -- Sequence of production -- The images in the wonders of the East -- A's collection of absurdities? -- The two artists of the Nowell Wonders -- Frames -- Colours -- The planning and control of the images -- Variant styles; multiple exemplars -- Scribe A's performance -- The value of the Nowell Codex's prose texts -- Corrections -- Scribe A's density of copying in Beowulf

Beowulf

Beowulf
Author: Janina Ramirez
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781405935951

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Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Beowulf is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the Anglo-Saxon epic. Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

Communal Creativity in the Making of the Beowulf Manuscript

Communal Creativity in the Making of the  Beowulf  Manuscript
Author: Simon C. Thomson
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004360860

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In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour.