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From the Sword to the Pen
Nicole Gardiner-Stallaert
其他書名
An Analysis of the Concept of Loyalty in Old English Secular Heroic Poetry
出版P. Lang, 1988
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN08204056559780820405650
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fEwgAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this exhaustive study, Nicole Gardiner challenges two views widespread among Old English scholars: namely, that the concept of loyalty as reflected in Old English secular heroic poetry has remained unchanged since Tacitus' time; and that the same body of literature interweaves two different traditions, the native Germanic and the Latin Christian. Through detailed analysis of original source material, the author demonstrates that both views treat Old English secular heroic poetry as a homogeneous body of writing and fail to distinguish between the various ways different Christian poets adapted the Germanic concept of loyalty to a Christian way of thinking.