Author: Mary A. Parker
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for Christian stories and ideas in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem that also describes pagan religious and burial practices. By examining historical, archaeological, and linguistic sources, Mary Parker evaluates the possibilities for Christian understanding on the part of the audience and Christian teaching on the part of the poet. These inquiries lead to an informed review of the critical literature on the Christianity in Beowulf. Finally the author looks at individual speakers in the poem and words they use that reveal Christian meaning. This multi-disciplinary summary and review concludes that the Christianity in Beowulf is a reflection of the society that produced it, a heroic society in transition toward the new Christian value system.
Beowulf and Christianity
Author: Mary A. Parker
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for Christian stories and ideas in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem that also describes pagan religious and burial practices. By examining historical, archaeological, and linguistic sources, Mary Parker evaluates the possibilities for Christian understanding on the part of the audience and Christian teaching on the part of the poet. These inquiries lead to an informed review of the critical literature on the Christianity in Beowulf. Finally the author looks at individual speakers in the poem and words they use that reveal Christian meaning. This multi-disciplinary summary and review concludes that the Christianity in Beowulf is a reflection of the society that produced it, a heroic society in transition toward the new Christian value system.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for Christian stories and ideas in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem that also describes pagan religious and burial practices. By examining historical, archaeological, and linguistic sources, Mary Parker evaluates the possibilities for Christian understanding on the part of the audience and Christian teaching on the part of the poet. These inquiries lead to an informed review of the critical literature on the Christianity in Beowulf. Finally the author looks at individual speakers in the poem and words they use that reveal Christian meaning. This multi-disciplinary summary and review concludes that the Christianity in Beowulf is a reflection of the society that produced it, a heroic society in transition toward the new Christian value system.
Anglo-Saxon Christian Poetry
Author: A. J. Barnouw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401763143
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401763143
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Christian Elements in Beowulf
Author: Friedrich Klaeber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
European Paganism
Author: Mr Ken Dowden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134810229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent. Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing the unpolluted rivers and mountains? In European Paganism Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspects of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice to pilgrimage lunar festivals and tree worship. It includes: * a 'timelines' chart to aid with chronology * many quotations from ancient and modern sources translated from the original language where necessary, to make them accessible * a comprehensive bibliography and guide to further reading.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134810229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent. Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing the unpolluted rivers and mountains? In European Paganism Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspects of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice to pilgrimage lunar festivals and tree worship. It includes: * a 'timelines' chart to aid with chronology * many quotations from ancient and modern sources translated from the original language where necessary, to make them accessible * a comprehensive bibliography and guide to further reading.
Beowulf
Author:
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Dear and Glorious Physician
Author: Taylor Caldwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854565672
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854565672
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Mode and Meaning of 'Beowulf'
Author: Margaret E. Goldsmith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In this important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies Dr Goldsmith presents a fully elaborated and documented interpretation of Beowulf based on the original theories which she has put forward in recent years and which have aroused considerable interest and controversy in scholarly circles. Her view of the poem as the product of a marriage of cultural traditions, a historical epic with allegorical significance, is developed in the context of a close analysis of the doctrinal and literary environment prevailing during the period A.D. 650-800, within which composition is placed. Dr Goldsmith seeks to show that the poem has a unified and coherent structure and in the process resolves many textual and interpretative problems of long standing. Beowulf is clearly seen as a serious work of art standing at the head of the vernacular tradition of allegorical poetry.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In this important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies Dr Goldsmith presents a fully elaborated and documented interpretation of Beowulf based on the original theories which she has put forward in recent years and which have aroused considerable interest and controversy in scholarly circles. Her view of the poem as the product of a marriage of cultural traditions, a historical epic with allegorical significance, is developed in the context of a close analysis of the doctrinal and literary environment prevailing during the period A.D. 650-800, within which composition is placed. Dr Goldsmith seeks to show that the poem has a unified and coherent structure and in the process resolves many textual and interpretative problems of long standing. Beowulf is clearly seen as a serious work of art standing at the head of the vernacular tradition of allegorical poetry.
The Art of Beowulf
Author: Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Christ in Type and Prophecy
Author: Anthony John Maas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Cruces of Beowulf
Author: Betty S. Cox
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111682145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
My essay is the result of an attempt to re-examine certain cruces of Beowulf, some textual, some interpretative, some both, under the now widely accepted belief that Tolkien and Miss Whitelock are correct in their assertions that the poem is a meaningful work of art and that it was addressed to a Christian audience by a Christian poet. - Introduction.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111682145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
My essay is the result of an attempt to re-examine certain cruces of Beowulf, some textual, some interpretative, some both, under the now widely accepted belief that Tolkien and Miss Whitelock are correct in their assertions that the poem is a meaningful work of art and that it was addressed to a Christian audience by a Christian poet. - Introduction.