9780674052956-0674052951-The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Flight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Flight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

ISBN-13: 9780674052956
ISBN-10: 0674052951
Edition: 1
Author: R.D. Fulk
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674052956
ISBN-10: 0674052951
Edition: 1
Author: R.D. Fulk
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 400 pages

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The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Flight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (ISBN-13: 9780674052956 and ISBN-10: 0674052951), written by authors R.D. Fulk, was published by Harvard University Press in 2010. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Flight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.95.

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Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.

But this volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, and (following Beowulf) the poem Judith. First-time readers as well as established scholars can now gain new insights into Beowulf—and the four other texts—by approaching each in its original context.

Could a fascination with the monstrous have motivated the compiler of this manuscript, working over a thousand years ago, to pull together this diverse grouping into a single volume? The prose translation by R. D. Fulk, based on the most recent editorial understanding, allows readers to rediscover Beowulf’s brilliant mastery along with otherworldly delights in the four companion texts in The Beowulf Manuscript.

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