LEADER 03742nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910964480803321 005 20251117095411.0 010 $a9781935978336 010 $a1935978330 024 7 $a2027/heb08904 035 $a(CKB)2550000000100479 035 $a(EBL)3416985 035 $a(OCoLC)923514465 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000681962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11449939 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000681962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663961 035 $a(PQKB)11044178 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416985 035 $a(OCoLC)797855521 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25992 035 $a(dli)HEB08904 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011593908 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416985 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561045 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL797736 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000100479 100 $a20051121d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAncient privileges $eBeowulf, law and the making of Germanic antiquity /$fby Stefan Jurasinski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMorgantown, W. Va. $cWest Virginia University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aMedieval European studies ;$v6 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 2003. 300 $a"This study considers the influence of nineteenth-century legal historians on the editing and interpretation of Beowulf"--Preface. 311 08$a9780937058985 311 08$a093705898X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-179) and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Medieval European Studies Series Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: "The Forests Of Germany": Legal History and the Inheritance of Philology; Law and Philology; Jakob Grimm, Legal Formalism and the Editing of Beowulf; Formulas as Criteria for Textual Emendation; Anathemas, Charters and Cursed Gold; Conclusion; "Public Land," Germanic Egalitarianism, and Nineteenth-century Philology; Folcland and the Folcscaru; Folcland after Kemble; Post-Vinogradoff Discussions; Conclusions; The Ecstasy of Vengeance: Nineteenth-century Germanism and the Finn Episode 327 $aNineteenth-Century Views of the BloodfeudThe Sacred Duty of Revenge; The Nineteenth-century Legacy; Conclusion; Feohleas Gefeoht: Accidental Homicide and the Hrethel Episode; Later Developments; The Nature of Accident; The Legislative Background of the Hrethel Episode; Concluding Remarks; Conclusions Law and the Archaism of Beowulf; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover 330 $aOne of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century philology was the development of the wide array of comparative data that underpins the grammars of the Old Germanic dialects, such as Old English, Old Icelandic, Old Saxon, and Gothic.These led to the reconstruction of Common Germanic and Proto-Germanic languages. 410 0$aMedieval European studies ;$v6. 606 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLaw, Germanic$xHistory 606 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aHomicide in literature 606 $aAnglo-Saxons in literature 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw, Germanic$xHistory. 615 0$aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aHomicide in literature. 615 0$aAnglo-Saxons in literature. 676 $a829.3 700 $aJurasinski$b Stefan$0790975 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964480803321 996 $aAncient privileges$91767177 997 $aUNINA