Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and Themaking of Germanic Antiquityvolume 6

ISBN-13: 9780937058985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 193 str.

Stefan Jurasinski

Opis

Recounts how the work of nineteenth-century legal historians influenced the editing of Old English texts, most notably Beowulf, in ways that are still preserved in our editions. This situation has been a major contributor to the archaizing of Beowulf.