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The cultural world in Beowulf /

Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in a European vernacular language. It dramatizes behaviour in a complex social world - a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, John M., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Colección:Anthropological horizons.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Feud Settlements in Beowulf
  • 2 The Temporal World in Beowulf
  • 3 The Jural World in Beowulf
  • 4 The Economy of Honour in Beowulf
  • 5 The Psychological World in Beowulf
  • Conclusion.