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Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
Kevin S. Kiernan
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 1996
主題
History / Europe / Medieval
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / European / General
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Medieval
Literary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN
9780472084128
0472084127
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9x_gf7s5h1sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts.
Kevin S. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost
Beowulf
scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization. This volume reprints Kiernan's earlier study of the manuscript, in which he presented his novel conclusions about the date of
Beowulf.
It also offers a new Introduction in which the author describes the value of electronic study of
Beowulf,
and a new Appendix that lists all the letters and parts of letters revealed by backlighting.
This important volume will be a must-read not only for the scholar of early English history and literature, but for all those who are interested in practical applications of the new technologies.
