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  • Æðelgyðe Ellendæda on Wundorlande
    Lewis Carroll / Peter S Baker
    Old English (or "Englisc") is the English language as recorded from around the year 700 to 1100. Spoken by King Alfred the Great and Lady Godiva, the Venerable Bede and Edward the Confessor, it is the language of such classics as "Beowulf", "The Dream of the Rood", and "The Seafarer". After 1100 the language went through a period of change so rapid that, by the time two centuri...
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    17,79 €

  • Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf
    Peter S Baker
    This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order but rather was seen as a reasonable way to get things done; where kings and their reta...
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    117,21 €

  • Best American Fantasy 2
    Kage Baker / Kelly Link / Peter S. Beagle
    A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year. 3 ...
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    18,17 €

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 8
    Peter S Baker
    This edition presents a bilingual (Old English and Latin) version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, probably in the first decade of the twelfth century. Though the Old English and Latin texts have been printed separately, this is the first edition to present the text intended by its compiler, who also produced the Latin translation and...
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    117,30 €