Title Ancient privileges : Beowulf, law and the making of Germanic antiquity / by Stefan Jurasinski

Edition 1st edition Published Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages) Series Medieval European studies ; 6 Medieval European studies ; 6. Contents Front Cover -- Medieval European Studies Series Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: “The Forests Of Germany�: Legal History and the Inheritance of Philology -- Law and Philology -- Jakob Grimm, Legal Formalism and the Editing of Beowulf -- Formulas as Criteria for Textual Emendation -- Anathemas, Charters and Cursed Gold -- Conclusion -- “Public Land, � Germanic Egalitarianism, and Nineteenth-century Philology -- Folcland and the Folcscaru -- Folcland after Kemble -- Post-Vinogradoff Discussions -- Conclusions The Ecstasy of Vengeance: Nineteenth-century Germanism and the Finn EpisodeNineteenth-Century Views of the Bloodfeud -- The Sacred Duty of Revenge -- The Nineteenth-century Legacy -- Conclusion -- Feohleas Gefeoht: Accidental Homicide and the Hrethel Episode -- Later Developments -- The Nature of Accident -- The Legislative Background of the Hrethel Episode -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusions Law and the Archaism of Beowulf -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 2003 "This study considers the influence of nineteeth-century legal historians on the editing and interpretation of Beowulf"--Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-179) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Beowulf -- Editing Beowulf -- Criticism, Textual. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013258 Beowulf fast Subject Law and literature -- History -- 19th century Law, Germanic -- History Epic poetry, English (Old) -- Criticism, Textual Homicide in literature. Anglo-Saxons in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anglo-Saxons in literature Editing Epic poetry, English (Old) Homicide in literature Law and literature Law, Germanic Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005937638 ISBN 9781935978336 1935978330

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