{"product_id":"the-beowulf-manuscript-9780674052956","title":"The Beowulf Manuscript","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose \u003ci\u003ePassion of Saint Christopher\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle\u003c\/i\u003e, and (following \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e) the poem \u003ci\u003eJudith\u003c\/i\u003e. First-time readers as well as established scholars can now gain new insights into \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e—and the four other texts—by approaching each in its original context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCould a fascination with the monstrous have motivated the compiler of this manuscript, working over a thousand years ago, to pull together this diverse grouping into a single volume? The prose translation by R. D. Fulk, based on the most recent editorial understanding, allows readers to rediscover \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e's brilliant mastery along with otherworldly delights in the four companion texts in \u003ci\u003eThe Beowulf Manuscript\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487570804972,"sku":"9780674052956","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f189f037dc08b4e8673b58b424f1434e.jpg?v=1776127450","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-beowulf-manuscript-9780674052956","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}