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Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript
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ISBN: 0813509254 9780813509259 Year: 1984 Publisher: New Brunswick (N.J.): Rutgers University press,

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Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript
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ISBN: 9004360859 9789004360853 9789004360860 9004360867 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill

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In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript , Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.

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