Honour, exchange and violence in Beowulf /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Woodbridge, U.K. : D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2013. |
| Series: | Anglo-Saxon studies ;
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| Retention: | Committed to retain |
| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |