23 research outputs found
'New Corn from Old Fields': the auctor and compilator in fourteenth-century English literature
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Bringing the John Murray archive to the National Library of Scotland
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'Glosyinge Is a Glorious Thyng': Chaucer's Rhetoric, Manuscripts and Readers
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Ealdgesagena worn: What the Old English Beowulf tells us about oral forms
This chapter in a collection of essays on oral literature I look at the Old English Beowulf and discuss the references to oral composition and descriptions of 'scops' creating and reciting verse in this and other Old English poems. I also discuss the composition of Beowulf itself and possible dating