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Ancient privileges : Beowulf, law and the making of Germanic antiquity /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Morgantown, W. Va. :
West Virginia University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
| Colección: | Medieval European studies ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Medieval European Studies Series Page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: “The Forests Of Germany�: Legal History and the Inheritance of Philology
- Law and Philology
- Jakob Grimm, Legal Formalism and the Editing of Beowulf
- Formulas as Criteria for Textual Emendation
- Anathemas, Charters and Cursed Gold
- Conclusion
- “Public Land, � Germanic Egalitarianism, and Nineteenth-century Philology
- Folcland and the Folcscaru
- Folcland after Kemble
- Post-Vinogradoff Discussions
- Conclusions
- The Ecstasy of Vengeance: Nineteenth-century Germanism and the Finn EpisodeNineteenth-Century Views of the Bloodfeud
- The Sacred Duty of Revenge
- The Nineteenth-century Legacy
- Conclusion
- Feohleas Gefeoht: Accidental Homicide and the Hrethel Episode
- Later Developments
- The Nature of Accident
- The Legislative Background of the Hrethel Episode
- Concluding Remarks
- Conclusions Law and the Archaism of Beowulf
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover