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Author Jurasinski, Stefan.

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

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

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (183 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medieval European studies ; 6
Medieval European studies ; 6.
Note 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.
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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 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""
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Subject Beowulf -- Editing.
Beowulf.
Editing.
Beowulf -- Criticism, Textual.
Criticism, Textual.
Beowulf -- Editing -- Criticism, Textual.
Beowulf.
Law and literature -- History -- 19th century.
Law and literature.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Law, Germanic -- History.
Law, Germanic.
Epic poetry, English (Old) -- Criticism, Textual.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Homicide in literature.
Homicide in literature.
Anglo-Saxons in literature.
Anglo-Saxons in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jurasinski, Stefan. Ancient privileges. 1st ed. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2006 093705898X (DLC) 2005937638 (OCoLC)70077718
ISBN 9781935978336 (electronic book)
1935978330 (electronic book)
093705898X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780937058985