Hospitality, Hostility, and Peacemaking in Beowulf.

The article offers poetry criticism of the epic poem "Beowulf." Topics cited include hospitality as a social and political practice as well as a religious belief, the expected behavior of visitors as they adapt to the local community that may disrupt social order and the difference between the chara...

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Published in:Philological Quarterly Vol. 94; no. 1/2; pp. 23 - 51
Main Author: MICHELET, FABIENNE L.
Format: Poetry Review
Published: Department of English, University of Iowa Winter/Spring2015
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