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Pride and prodigies :

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Pride and prodigies :

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studies in the monsters of the Beowulf-manuscript /

Andy Orchard.

Rochester, NY, USA :

D.S. Brewer,

1995.

viii, 352 pages ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and index.

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 -- App. Ia The Wonders of the East: Latin Text -- App. Ib The Wonders of the East: Old English Text -- App. Ic The Wonders of the East: Translation -- App. IIa The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Latin Text -- App. IIb The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Old English Text -- App. IIc The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Translation -- App. IIIa Liber monstrorum: Latin Text -- App. IIIb Liber monstrorum: Translation -- App. IIIc Liber monstrorum: Sources and Analogues.

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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, Dr 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.

Beowulf-- Manuscripts.

Beowulf.

Beowulf-- Manuscripts.

Beowulf.

Beowulf

Beowulf-- Manuscrits.

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Nowell Codex

Christianity and literature-- England.

Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.

Heroes in literature.

Manuscripts, English (Old)

Monsters in literature.

Monsters-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.

Pride in literature.

Beowulf (anoniem)

Christentum

Christianity and literature.

Epen.

Epic poetry, English (Old)

Handschrift

Helden (personen)

Heroes in literature.

Manuscripts, English (Old)

Manuscrits anglais (vieil anglais)

Monsters in literature.

Monsters.

Monstres-- Dans la littérature.

Oudengels.

Poésie épique anglaise (vieil anglais)-- Histoire et critique.

Pride in literature.

Stolz

Ungeheuer

England.

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