Germanic Hero

Name: Germanic Hero
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 9781852851439
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Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry

Szerző: Brian O. Murdoch

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Bloomsbury Publishing

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In this study, the author looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined pol...

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Szerző

Brian O. Murdoch

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1996

oldal

188

EAN

9781852851439

ISBN

1852851430

Enbook ID

05110957

Kiadó

Bloomsbury Publishing

Súly

300

Méretek

140 x 216 x 15

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In this study, the author looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined political and social constraints. The hero if not a sword-wielding barbarian, bent only upon establishing his own fame; such fame-seekers (including some famous medieval literary figures) might even fall outside the definition of the Germanic hero, the real value of whose deeds are given meaning only within the political construct. Individual prowess is not enough. The hero must conquer the blows of fate because he is committed to the conquest of chaos, and over all to the need for social stability. Even the warrior-hero's concern with his reputation is usually expressed negatively: that the wrong songs are not sung about him. The author discusses works in Old English, Old and Middle High German, Old Norse, Latin and Old French, deliberately going beyond what is normally thought of as "heroic poetry" to include the German so-called "minstrel epic" and a work by a writer who is normally classified as a late medieval chivalric poet, Konrad von Wurzburg, the comparison of which with "Beowulf" allows us to span half a millennium.

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