Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript : towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex

Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript : towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, Simon C. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Library of the written word ; 67.
Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 10.
Subjects:
British Library. > Manuscript. > Cotton Vitellius A XV.
Beowulf > Criticism, Textual.
Nowell codex.
Beowulf. > English (Old English) > (Nowell codex)
Epic poetry, English (Old) > Criticism, Textual.
Manuscripts, Medieval > England > Editing.
Manuscripts, English (Old) > Editing.
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Table of Contents:
  • (Re)introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex
  • The passion of Saint Christopher
  • The wonders of the East
  • The letter of Alexander to Aristotle
  • Beowulf
  • Judith
  • Reading the Nowell Codex in the Eleventh Century
  • Reconstructing the Nowell Codex
  • Dating and placing the scribes of the Nowell Codex
  • Extant gatherings
  • Judith, St Christopher and the missing gatherings
  • Sequence of production
  • The images in the wonders of the East
  • A's collection of absurdities?
  • The two artists of the Nowell Wonders
  • Frames
  • Colours
  • The planning and control of the images
  • Variant styles; multiple exemplars
  • Scribe A's performance
  • The value of the Nowell Codex's prose texts
  • Corrections
  • Scribe A's density of copying in Beowulf.

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