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Meet the pagans: on the misuse of 'Beowulf' in 'Andreas'

North, R; (2018) Meet the pagans: on the misuse of 'Beowulf' in 'Andreas'. In: Magennis, H and Cesario, M, (eds.) Aspects of knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages. (pp. 185-209). Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Essay seeks to show that the poet of 'Andreas' compsoed his saint's life adventure of St Andrew in the Land of the Cannibals partly as a parody of the sympathy towards pagans which is obvious in 'Beowulf', by this token a major text of his time.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Meet the pagans: on the misuse of 'Beowulf' in 'Andreas'
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-9784-3
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Beowulf, Andreas, cannibals
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10027557
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