Heroism and Failure in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: the Ideal and the Real within the Comitatus
Description:
This dissertation discusses the complicated relationship (known as the comitatus) of kings and followers as presented in the heroic poetry of the Anglo-Saxons. The anonymous poets of the age celebrated the ideals of their culture but consistently portrayed the real behavior of the characters within their works. Other studies have examined the ideals of the comitatus in general terms while referring to the poetry as a body of work, or they have discussed them in particular terms while referring …
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Date:
May 1989
Creator:
Nelson, Nancy Susan