Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 427
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ISBN-10 : 9789004360860
ISBN-13 : 9004360867
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Download or read book Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript written by Simon C. Thomson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.


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