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Author Damico, Helen, author.

Title Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin : politics and poetry in eleventh-century England / Helen Damico.

Publication Info. Morgantown : University of West Virginia Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table.
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Series Medieval European studies ; XVI
Medieval European studies ; XVI.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: From history to vernacular epic -- The severed head: poetic image and historical text -- The Gifstail and the Grendel-Kin -- Aulfafa in Raka and the English Konungamałair -- Emma and Wealhtheow: female sovereignty and poetic discourse.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Beowulf -- Criticism, Textual.
Politics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
English poetry -- Old English, approximately 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
Anglo-Saxons -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Damico, Helen. Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin : politics and poetry in eleventh-century England. Morgantown : University of West Virginia Press, 2015 Medieval European studies ; XVI 9781938228711
ISBN 9781938228711 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1938228715 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781938228735 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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