The making of poetic history in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia
This thesis explores the alternative mode of early medieval history-writing manifested in Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian vernacular poetic texts like Beowulf and the Waltharius. While such sources have long been recognized to contain historical elements, they are usually considered the preserve of lite...
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University of Leeds
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.694109 |