Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript : : towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex /

Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript : : towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex / / by Simon Thomson.

In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript , Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use o...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word. Manuscript World ; Volume 10
VerfasserIn:
Thomson, Simon C.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; Volume 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (427 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • (Re)introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex
  • The passion of Saint Christopher
  • The wonders of the East
  • The letter of Alexander to Aristotle
  • Beowulf
  • Judith
  • Reading the Nowell Codex in the Eleventh Century
  • Reconstructing the Nowell Codex
  • Dating and placing the scribes of the Nowell Codex
  • Extant gatherings
  • Judith, St Christopher and the missing gatherings
  • Sequence of production
  • The images in the wonders of the East
  • A's collection of absurdities?
  • The two artists of the Nowell Wonders
  • Frames
  • Colours
  • The planning and control of the images
  • Variant styles; multiple exemplars
  • Scribe A's performance
  • The value of the Nowell Codex's prose texts
  • Corrections
  • Scribe A's density of copying in Beowulf.

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