LEADER 03881nam 2200625 450 001 9910149167003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5751-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442657519 035 $a(CKB)3580000000002042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670187 035 $a(CEL)417707 035 $a(OCoLC)903440888 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00915968 035 $a(DE-B1597)465574 035 $a(OCoLC)944178563 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442657519 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670187 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256701 035 $a(OCoLC)904376702 035 $a(EXLCZ)993580000000002042 100 $a20160921h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe dating of Beowulf /$fedited by Colin Chase 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (239 pages) 225 1 $aToronto Old English Series ;$v6 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-7879-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tEditor?s preface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tThe Dating of Beowulf -- $tOpinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815?1980 -- $tThe Eleventh-Century Origin of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript -- $tThe Nowell Codex and the Poem of Beowulf -- $tA Reconsideration of the Language of Beowulf -- $tMetrical Style as Evidence for the Date of Beowulf -- $tHetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms in Beowulf -- $tBeowulf, the Danish Invasions, and Royal Genealogy -- $tThe Audience of Beowulf and the Vikings -- $tSkaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf -- $tVariation in Beowulf and the Poetic Edda: A Chronological Experiment -- $tSaints? Lives, Royal Lives, and the Date of Beowulf -- $tStyle as the Criterion for Dating the Composition of Beowulf -- $tOn the Date of Composition of Beowulf -- $tThe Date of Beowulf: Some Doubts and No Conclusions -- $tAfterword: The Uses of Uncertainty: On the Dating of Beowulf -- $tIndex 330 $aThe date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious past? If we cannot decide when, between the 5th and 11th centuries, the poem was composed, we cannot distinguish what elements in Beowulf belong properly to the history of material culture, to the history of myth and legend, to political history, or to the development of the English literary imagination.This book represents both individual and concerted attempts to deal with this important question, and presents one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English. The contributors raise so many doubts, turn up so much new and disturbing information, dismantle so many long-accepted scholarly constructs that Beowulf studies will never be the same: henceforth every discussion of the poem and its period will begin with reference to this volume. 410 0$aToronto Old English series ;$v6. 606 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$vChronology 606 $aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon$vChronology 606 $aMiddle Ages$vChronology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEpic poetry, English (Old) 615 0$aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon 615 0$aMiddle Ages 676 $a829/.3 702 $aChase$b Colin 712 02$aUniversity of Toronto.$bCentre for Medieval Studies, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149167003321 996 $aDating of beowulf$9947997 997 $aUNINA