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	Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript

Kevin S. Kiernan
University of Michigan Press, 1996 - Literary Criticism - 328 pages
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The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts.
 Kevin S. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost Beowulf scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization. This volume reprints Kiernan's earlier study of the manuscript, in which he presented his novel conclusions about the date of Beowulf. It also offers a new Introduction in which the author describes the value of electronic study of Beowulf, and a new Appendix that lists all the letters and parts of letters revealed by backlighting.
 This important volume will be a must-read not only for the scholar of early English history and literature, but for all those who are interested in practical applications of the new technologies.











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	Title	Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
	Author	Kevin S. Kiernan
	Contributors	Katherine O. O'Keefe, British Library
	Edition	illustrated, revised
	Publisher	University of Michigan Press, 1996
	ISBN	0472084127, 9780472084128
	Length	328 pages
	Subjects	Literary Criticism
 › European
 › General


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