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Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as a foreign fighter seeking glory abroad. Such men resemble wreccan , "exiles" compelled to leave their homelands due to excessive violence. Beowulf may be potentially arrogant, therefore, but he learns prudence. This native wisdom highlights a king's duty to his warband, in expectation of Beowulf's future rule. The dragon fight later raises the same question of incompatible identities, hero versus king. In frequent reference to Greek epic and Icelandic saga, this revisionist approach to Beowulf offers new interpretations of flyting rhetoric, the custom of "men dying with their lord," and the poem's digressions.

Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Heroes in literature. --- Heroic virtue in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Beowulf. --- Bjowulf

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This latest volume of 'Studies in Medievalism' further explores definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor. In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to determine precisely how to characterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the 'Divine Comedy'; the role of music in Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's 'The Passion' and 'The.Powerbook'; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's 'Golden Legend'. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell, Aida Audeh, Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

Medievalism. --- Medeltiden --- attityder till --- historia. --- Mittelalter. --- Rezeption. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation moderne --- Influence médiévale --- Charles Dickens. --- Handel's Rodelinda. --- J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. --- John Bale's Reformist Plays. --- King Alfred. --- Medieval Bestiaries. --- Niebelungenlied. --- Revisionist Works. --- Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. --- Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. --- Wagner's Ring Cycle. --- Courtly Love Tradition. --- Divine Comedy. --- Eleanor of Aquitaine. --- Holy Grail. --- Lord of the Rings. --- Middle Ages. --- Music. --- Progress. --- Riddling Tradition. --- Seven Deadly Sins. --- Victorian Spins. --- History --- Research.