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Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.This book will be a milestone, and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics, semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford. The datingof 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 this volume contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought together in Beowulf. Discussions of methodology and the h

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Author

Leonard Neidorf (ed.)

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer, Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843844495

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Rating

4 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13