The Dating of Beowulf
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book.
Buy Dating of Beowulf (Toronto Old English Studies) New Ed by Chase, Colin (ISBN: ) from Amazon’s Book Store. Everyday low prices and free.
JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. This website requires cookies to provide all of its features. For more information on what data is contained in the cookies, please see our Cookie Notice. To accept cookies from this site, please click the Allow Cookies button below. Hardback – ISBN: Allow Cookies.
Qty: Add to Cart -OR-. Details “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.
The dating of 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, these essays 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.