The dating of Beowulf : a reassessment /
"The dating of Beowulf has been a central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries, since it affects not only the interpretation of Beowulf, but also the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring evidence for the poem's date of composition, the essays in...
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2014.
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| Series: | Anglo-Saxon studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Beowulf and language history / R.D. Fulk
- 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.