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Pride and Prodigies - Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Pride and Prodigies - Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Heritage
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'Then there came from the moor, under the misty slopes, Grendel
approaching: he bore the wrath of God.' Monsters and the monstrous,
whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian
Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of
ways. 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 immediate manuscript context of the
monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's
treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into
his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of
medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous
texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English,
Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic. The twin themes of pride and
prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the
concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud
pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters
they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified. An
appendix contains new editions and translations (some for the first
time in English) of the Liber Monstrorum, The Letter of Alexander
to Aristotle, and The Wonders of the East.
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Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Series: |
Heritage |
Release date: |
April 2003 |
First published: |
2003 |
Authors: |
Andy Orchard
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
360 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8020-8583-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8020-8583-0 |
Barcode: |
9780802085832 |
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