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Pride and Prodigies : Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Orchard, Andy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Beowulf-manuscript
  • Psychology and physicality: the monsters of Beowulf
  • The kin of Cain
  • The liber monstrorum
  • The Alexander-legend in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Grettir and Grendel again
  • Postscript.