Commentary on the old english and anglo-latin riddle tradition, Orchard, Andy

Автор: Orchard Andy
Название: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
ISBN: 0674055330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674055339
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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Описание: Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the extraordinary and the everyday. The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition assembles, for the first time ever, an astonishing array of riddles composed before 1200 CE that continue to entertain and puzzle.

Автор: Orchard, Andy
Название: Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
ISBN: 0802085830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802085832
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.