ANCIENT PRIVILEGES: "BEOWULF,LAW, AND THEMAKING OF GERMANIC ANTIQUITY"

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Ancient Privileges Medieval European Studies VI Patrick W. Conner, Series Editor Other Titles in the Series: Volume I Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas Thomas N. Hall, Editor with assistance from Thomas D. Hill and Charles D. Wright Volume II Hêliand: Text and Commentary Edited by James E. Cathey Volume III Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England Edited by Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox Volume IV Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Edited by Catherine E. Karkov and Fred Orton Volume V Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context Edited by Joyce Tally Lionarons Volume VI Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity Stefan Jurasinski Volume VII Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede Edited by Scott DeGregorio Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity by Stefan Jurasinski West Virginia University Press Morgantown 2006 West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 26506© 2006 by West Virginia University Press All rights reserved First edition published 2006 by West Virginia University Press Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-937058-98-X (alk. paper) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Ancient Privileges. Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity / Stefan Jurasinski. p. cm. -- (Medieval European Studies ; 6) 1. Social history Medieval, 500-1500. 2. English Literature–Old English, ca. 450-1100–History and criticism. 3. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. 4. Germanic literature--History and criticism. 5. Germanic philology. 6. Philologists--Germany--Biography. 7. Beowulf–Editing. I. Title. II. Jurasinski, Stefan. III. Series. IN PROCESS Library of Congress Control Number: 2005937638 Printed in USA by Lightning Source. Typeset by Than Saffel. Cover image by Lazlo Matulay and published in By His Own Might: The Battles of Beowulf by Dorothy Hosford (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1947). ...