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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.
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.
Price: $231.00
Pages: 404
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
15 May 2018
ISBN: 9789004360853
Format: Other
“Communal Creativity is a very well-written and highly readable book … The material is meticulously presented and lavishly illustrated with tables, charts and images in both black and white and colour.”
Francis Leneghan, St Cross College, Oxford. In: The Review of English Studies, New Series 1-3 (2019).
Francis Leneghan, St Cross College, Oxford. In: The Review of English Studies, New Series 1-3 (2019).
Simon Thomson, Ph.D. (2017), UCL, is a researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and edits a Brepols series, ‘Medieval Narratives in Transmission’. He has published on the scribes and artists of the Beowulf manuscript, and on Cnut the Great’s rule of England.