{"product_id":"9781442659001","title":"Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways.  In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe immediate manuscript context of the monsters in \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English, Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn appendix contains new editions and translations (some for the first time in English) of the \u003ci\u003eLiber Monstrorum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Letter of Alexander to Aristotle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1995 by Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134611177712,"sku":"9781442659001","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442659001_p0.jpg?v=1763811481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442659001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}