St. Beowulf: Hagiography and Heroic Identity in Beowulf.
Debates over the role of Christianity in Beowulf have not fully taken into account hagiographic models. Although saints' lives were among the first written materials to flourish in early medieval England, relatively little has been done to examine the influence of hagiography on Beowulf. After consi...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 121; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of North Carolina Press
Winter2024
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