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Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript

By Andy Orchard

Book information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9781442657090
DOI
10.3138/9781442657090
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19478375 bytes)
Pages
360\366
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 02:41:25

Description

In this series of detailed studies, Andy 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.

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