Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked. This book examines violence in its social sett

This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Hono

In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its comp

Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category,

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the earl