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Book SynopsisThe Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark brings together studies concerning heroes and heroisms in Old English, Old Icelandic, Middle English, and modern literature as a tribute to the scholarship and teaching of George Clark. The thirteen essays in this collection appear in print here for the first time.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Tribute to George Clark Introduction
Part 1. The Hero and Legend: Beowulf Thought in
Beowulf and Our Perception of It: Interiority, Power, and the Problem of the Revealed Mind by Sarah L. Higley Transforming the Hero:
Beowulf and the Conversion of Hunferth by Judy King The King and the Warrior: Hrothgar's Sitting Masculinity by John M. Hill
Part 2. The Hero and History: The Battle of Maldon Oaths in
The Battle of Maldon by Stephen J. Harris Heroic Saint and Saintly Hero:
The Passio Sancti Eadmundi and
The Battle of Maldon by Paul Cavill
Part 3. The Hero and Conventions: Studies of Old Norse Literature Proverbs and Proverbiousness in
Hrafnkels saga Freysgooa by Tom Shippey The Sagas in the Straitjacket of Genre by Theodore M. Andersson The Proverbs of
VatnsdAela saga and the Sword of Jokull: The Oral Backgrounds of Grettir Asmundarson's Flawed Heroism by Richard L. Harris
Part 4. The Hero Across Time: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era Vixen as Hero: Solving
Exeter Book Riddle 15 by Marijane Osborn Courage and Sexual Anxiety in Sir Thomas Gray's
Scalacronica by Andrew Taylor The Child, the Primitive, and the Medieval: Making Medieval Heroes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Anna Smol Jonas Hallgrimsson's "Verses of Icelanders" (Visur Islendinga) by Dick Ringler Heroes and Heroism in the Fiction of Tolkein and the Old Norse World: An Interview with George Clark by Daniel Timmons Contributors Index
