Honour, exchange and violence in Beowulf /
"This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, U.K. :
D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,
2013.
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| Series: | Anglo-Saxon studies ;
20. |
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