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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

By: Theodore Murdock Andersson

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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

By: Theodore Murdock Andersson

Andersson introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of politics and history.

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Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

Selected Studies of Larry Benson

By: Theodore M. Andersson

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Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

Selected Studies of Larry Benson

By: Theodore M. Andersson

This volume brings together a series of key essays by Larry D Benson, well-known for his work in editing the Riverside Chaucer. Of the studies selected, the opening three deal with Old English, recasting the possibilities for the critical study of Beowulf, above all the relation between oral and written literary production. The following ten essays turn to Middle English literature, with the focus first on Chaucer, and the evolution of his works and his language, then on the social and cultural context of medieval chivalric texts. Throughout, Professor Benson approaches his subjects with a skeptical intent, even a seeming contrariness in seeking to contradict received views, but in fact with the purpose of questioning in order to understand more deeply. Scattered in their original publications, and with one hitherto unpublished, together these studies present a powerful argument for this questioning approach to fundamental issues and constitute a major contribution to the study of the literary and cultural history of the medieval world. Larry D Benson is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University.

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Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland

Ljósvetninga Saga and Valla-Ljóts Saga

By: Theodore Murdock Andersson,William Ian Miller,W. Z. Müller

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Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland

Ljósvetninga Saga and Valla-Ljóts Saga

By: Theodore Murdock Andersson,William Ian Miller,W. Z. Müller

The two sagas here presented in translation with commentary belong to a class of medieval Icelandic texts commonly called family sagas. There are some three dozen of these sagas, composed for the most part in the thirteenth century, which tell stories about leading Icelandic figures and families from the time of the island's colonization around 900 to the middle of the eleventh century. This book contains the only complete translation of Ljosvetninga saga in English and the only English commentary on either saga. The authors aim to present the basic material needed for an informed reading of the Icelandic sagas. Both represent a school that urges that the sagas be refocused as historical documents, and they represent the two approaches to rehistorian (Andersson), the other a social and legal historian (Miller). One attempts to tie the sagas more closely to medieval literature and oral literature in general. The other attempts to define the relationship between the sagas and the social systems in which they evolved, and is much influenced by American legal realism and law-and-society scholarship.

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0804715327

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Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

Selected Studies of Larry Benson

By: Theodore M. Andersson

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Selected Studies of Larry Benson

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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)

Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland

Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland

Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer

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