H. Munro Chadwick, Chadwick H. Munro

The Heroic Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1912 comparative study examines Teutonic and Greek heroic poetry and literature, shedding new light on aspects of both cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9781108010115
• ISBN-10: 1108010113
• Artikelnr.: 29611228

Autorenporträt

Hector Munro Chadwick (1870-1947) was professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge and a pioneer in integrating the study of Old English with archaeology and history.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The early narrative poetry of the Teutonic peoples
2. The heroic age of the Teutonic peoples
3. Scene and nationality in the heroic stories
4. The origin and history of the heroic poems
5. The poetry and minstrelsy of early times
6. Supernatural elements in the heroic stories
7. Mythical elements in the heroic poems
8. The use of fiction in the heroic poems
9. The heroic age of Greece
10. The Homeric poems
11. Early Greek poetry and minstrelsy
12. Supernatural elements in the Homeric poems
13. Myth in the Homeric poems
14. Fiction in the Homeric poems
15. The common characteristics of Teutonic and Greek heroic poems
16. Society in the heroic age
17. Government in the heroic age
18. Religion in the heroic age
19. The causes and antecedent condition of the heroic age
Notes
Addenda et corrigenda
Index.