Pride and Prodigies : : Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript / / Andy Orchard.
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 re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I The Beowulf-Manuscript
- II Psychology and Physicality: the Monsters of Beowulf
- III The Kin of Cain
- IV The Liber monstrorum
- V The Alexander-Legend in Anglo-Saxon England
- VI Grettir and Grendel Again
- Postscript
- Appendices: Texts, Translations, and Sources
- Introduction
- I.a The Wonders of the East: Latin Text
- I.b The Wonders of the East: Old English Text
- I.c The Wonders of the East: Translation
- II.a The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Latin Text
- II.b The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Old English Text
- II.e The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Translation
- III.a Liber monstrorum: Latin Text
- III.b Liber monstrorum: Translation
- III.c Liber monstrorum: Sources and Analogues
- Bibliography
- General Index