Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership
- 2 Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life
- 3 Hall and feasting in Beowulf
- 4 Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives
- 5 Personal in conflict with communal
- 6 The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness
- 7 The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry
- 8 Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry
- 9 Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership
- 2 Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life
- 3 Hall and feasting in Beowulf
- 4 Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives
- 5 Personal in conflict with communal
- 6 The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness
- 7 The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry
- 8 Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry
- 9 Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Images of Community in Old English Poetry , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996