BEOWULF AND THE "BEOWULF" MANUSCRIPT by Kevin Kiernan ( 9780472084128 )

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Title:

BEOWULF AND THE "BEOWULF" MANUSCRIPT

By:

Kevin Kiernan

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Paperback

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0472084127

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9780472084128

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

22 January, 1997

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

360

Description:

Takes the crowning work of medieval Britain into the twenty-first century

Synopsis:

The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts.Kevin S. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost Beowulf scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization. This volume reprints Kiernan's earlier study of the manuscript, in which he presented his novel conclusions about the date of Beowulf. It also offers a new Introduction in which the author describes the value of electronic study of Beowulf, and a new Appendix that lists all the letters and parts of letters revealed by backlighting.This important volume will be a must-read not only for the scholar of early English history and literature, but for all those who are interested in practical applications of the new technologies.

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Illustrations (some col.)

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The University of Michigan Press

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