UID:
almahu_9949401865502882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800106130 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Nature and environment in the Middle Ages
Content:
"The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus.0Two such meanings are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves and human outlaws. Tracing the history of these associations and the evidence to suggest that they were known to writers working in early medieval England, this book provides new, animal-centric readings of Wulf and Eadwacer, Abbo of Fleury and AElfric's Passiones Eadmundi, and Beowulf, placing these texts within a lupine literary network that transcends time and place. By exploring the intricate, contradictory, and even sympathetic depictions of the wolves and wolf-like entities found within these texts, this book banishes all notions of the medieval wolf as the one-dimensional, man-eating creature that it is so often understood to be."--Back cover.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Oct 2022).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781843846406
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800106130/type/BOOK
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