Thesis
Guthlac
- Alternative title:
- an edition of the Old English prose life together with the poems in the Exeter Book
- Abstract:
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The thesis begins with an introductory chapter in which an examination is made of tha growth and spread of the Guthlac cult in England. Emphasis is placed upon the importance of the Vita sancti Guthlaci, which dominates most records of the saint. It is shown that, of the Guthlac materials of the early Anglo-Saxon period, only the earlier of the two Exeter Book poems and the concluding portion of the Vereelli Book homily are outside the Felix tradition, and that a very few popular...
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- Publication date:
- 1967
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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602325216, 602325214, and 602325215
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2013-01-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Crawford, Jane
- Copyright date:
- 1967
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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