The battle of maldon: a new critical edition
Auteur :
Griffith, Mark
Éditeur :
Liverpool University Press
ISBN :
9781807810559
Date de publication :
11 sept. 2026
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it shows it to be a striking mix of old and new, combining features found in much earlier verse with others only otherwise attested in Middle English alliterative poetry.