Intro: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership -- Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life -- Hall and feasting in Beowulf -- Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives -- Personal in conflict with communal -- The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness -- The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry -- Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry -- Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts.
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Beowulf
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Beowulf.
Beowulf
Beowulf.
Beowulf.
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Christian poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Community life in literature.
English poetry-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.
Germanic peoples in literature.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- To 1500.
Social history-- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Christian poetry, English (Old)
Christian poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Community life in literature.
Community life in literature.
English poetry-- Old English, 450-1100-- History and criticism.
English poetry-- Old English.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.