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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jurasinski, Stefan.

Series:

Medieval European studies ; 6.

Medieval European studies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beowulf--Editing.

Beowulf.

Beowulf--Criticism, Textual.

Law and literature--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

Law, Germanic--History.

Law, Germanic.

Epic poetry, English (Old)--Criticism, Textual.

Epic poetry, English (Old).

Homicide in literature.

Anglo-Saxons in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century philology was the development of the wide array of comparative data that underpins the grammars of the Old Germanic dialects, such as Old English, Old Icelandic, Old Saxon, and Gothic.These led to the reconstruction of Common Germanic and Proto-Germanic languages.

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 Episode

Nineteenth-Century Views of the BloodfeudThe 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 nineteenth-century legal historians on the editing and interpretation of Beowulf"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-179) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781935978336

1935978330

OCLC:

923514465

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08904 hdl