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The Cambridge companion to Old English literature
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- Online
- Summary
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Ideal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (291 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780511999581, 0511999585, 9780521374385, 9780521377942, 9780521374385
- OCLC
- ocn723455000
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Feb. 8, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Anglo-Saxon society and its literature / Patrick Wormald -- The Old English language / Helmut Gneuss -- The nature of Old English verse / Donald G. Scragg -- The nature of Old English prose / Janet Bately -- Germanic legend in Old English literature / Roberta Frank -- Heroic values and Christian ethics / Katherine O'brien O'keeffe -- Pagan survivals and popular belief / John D. Niles -- Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson -- Fatalism and the millennium / Joseph B. Trahern Jr -- Perceptions of transience / Christine Fell -- Perceptions of eternity / Milton McC. Gatch -- Biblical literature / Malcolm Godden -- Barbara C. Raw -- The saintly life in Anglo-Saxon England / Michael Lapidge -- The world of Anglo-Saxon learning / Patrizia Lendinara