Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-Manuscript

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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Dr Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts. The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is ...
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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Dr Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts. The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English, Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic. The twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780859914567
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
  • Publication date: 1/28/1995
  • Pages: 360

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
I The Beowulf-Manuscript 1
II Psychology and Physicality: the Monsters of Beowulf 28
III The Kin of Cain 58
IV The Liber monstrorum 86
V The Alexander-Legend in Anglo-Saxon England 116
VI Grettir and Grendel Again 140
Postscript 169
App. Ia The Wonders of the East: Latin Text 175
App. Ib The Wonders of the East: Old English Text 183
App. Ic The Wonders of the East: Translation 185
App. IIa The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Latin Text 204
App. IIb The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Old English Text 224
App. IIc The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Translation 225
App. IIIa Liber monstrorum: Latin Text 254
App. IIIb Liber monstrorum: Translation 255
App. IIIc Liber monstrorum: Sources and Analogues 318
Bibliography 321
General Index 343
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