{"product_id":"the-dating-of-ibeowulfi-9781843844495","title":"The Dating of Beowulf","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExaminations of the date of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will be a milestone, and deserves to be widely read. The early \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e that overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics, semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The datingof \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e has been a central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries, since it affects not only the interpretation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, but also the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring evidence for the poem's date of composition, these essays contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought together in \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e. Discussions of methodology and the history of the discipline also figure prominently in this collection.\u003cbr\u003e Overall, the dating of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e here provides a productive framework for evaluating evidence and drawing informed conclusions about its chronological significance. These conclusions enhance our appreciation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and improve our understanding of the poem's place in literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas A. Bredehoft, George Clark, Dennis Cronan, Michael D.C. Drout, Allen J. Frantzen, R.D. Fulk, Megan E. Hartman, Joseph Harris, Thomas D. Hill, Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom Shippey","brand":"Leonard Neidorf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280270569723,"sku":"9781843844495","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843844495.jpg?v=1772487516","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-dating-of-ibeowulfi-9781843844495","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}