The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and the Fight at Finnsburg

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Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. But this volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the...

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007Z04MYS
• ISBN13: 9780674052956
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"