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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 September 2011
    20 May 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511696848
    9781108010115
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511696848
    Dimensions:
    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.63kg, 496 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    In this book, first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series, Chadwick compares Teutonic and Greek heroic literature, to shed light on both. This was the first discussion of his theory of a Heroic Age, which he was to expand in a three-volume work written with his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, The Growth of Literature. Chadwick examines topics such as supernatural, religious, and mythic elements in Germanic, Scandinavian, and Homeric literature deriving from an older oral tradition, and also what they can tell us about the societies from which they derive. He uses philology and archaeological evidence as well as historical and literary sources, and shows how many common themes emerge in the different traditions. He argues that a heroic literature is something that appears in many cultures at different periods in history and which therefore requires a knowledge of anthropology for full understanding.

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