Jd niles (8 Ergebnisse)

Comic. Zustand: Very Good. First printing. Unread and bagged but not new in the strictest sense. Sent in a comic bag and board, as well as our usual protective packaging. Tony Harris and J D Mettler (illustrator). Book.

Hardback. Zustand: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. John D. Niles has long been one of the most intelligent and creative readers of Old English literature wherever his wide-ranging interest turns, he writes with a poet s heart, a scholar s sharp insight, and a sure grasp of critical history. One could hard.

Zustand: New. Presents the systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century. This book tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians..

Gebunden. Zustand: New. John D. Niles has long been one of the most intelligent and creative readers of Old English literature wherever his wide-ranging interest turns, he writes with a poet s heart, a scholar s sharp insight, and a sure grasp of critical history. One could hard.

Zustand: gut. Beowulf and Lejre In deutscher Sprache. pages.

Cambridge Mass., Harvard UP, 1983. viii,310 pp. Cloth w.dj. (edge sl.foxed).

Hardback, XIV+495 p., 100 b/w ill. + 48 colour ill., 10 b/w line art, 175 x 255 mm. ISBN 9782503527345. On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of the main part of that poem is situated at the village of Gammel Lejre on the island of Zealand, Denmark. Archaeological excavations undertaken from 1986 to 1988 under the direction of Tom Christensen of Roskilde Museum yielded spectacular confirmation of that inference by uncovering the remains of two great halls at Lejre dating from ca. AD 680 to 990, one built on the site of the other. At that time, this discovery had little impact upon Beowulf scholarship, in part because the chief monograph reporting on the excavations was available only in Danish. In 2004?05, however, a new round of excavations revealed that a still earlier hall had once stood elsewhere at Lejre. This hall has been dated to the mid-sixth century, very close to the time when the action of Beowulf is set. The question of the Danish origins of the Beowulf story is thus now highlighted. New. 0 g.…