{"product_id":"pride-and-prodigies-2","title":"Pride and Prodigies","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe immediate manuscript context of the monsters in \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English, Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn appendix contains new editions and translations (some for the first time in English) of the \u003ci\u003eLiber Monstrorum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Letter of Alexander to Aristotle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1995 by Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Andy Orchard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219037139324,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442659001.jpg?v=1768195581","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/pride-and-prodigies-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}