Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript: Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex: 67 (Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World) - Hardcover

Simon C. Thomson

 
9789004360853: Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript: Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex: 67 (Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004360859 ISBN 13: 9789004360853
Publisher: BRILL, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Simon Thomson, Ph.D. (2017), UCL, is a researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and edits a Brepols series, Medieval Narratives in Transmission. He has published on the scribes and artists of the Beowulf manuscript, and on Cnut the Greats rule of England.

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Publisher
BRILL
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004360859
ISBN 13 
9789004360853
Binding
Leather Bound
Number of pages
492