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II Æthelred and the Politics of The Battle of Maldon

Neidorf, Leonard

Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2012-10, Vol.111 (4), p.451-473 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

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II Æthelred and the Politics of The Battle of Maldon
Autor: Neidorf, Leonard
Assuntos: 400-1099 Old English period ; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ; Anglo-Saxon Politics ; Audience ; Authors and Anonymous Works ; Battle of Maldon ; English ; English Literature ; Ethelred -- II, -- King of England,?-1016 ; Ethelred II, 979-1016 ; Ethelred II, the Unready, King of England(968?-1016) ; Great Britain ; History ; History and criticism ; II Æthelred ; Laws ; Literary criticism ; Maldon (Anglo-Saxon poem) ; Maldon, Battle of, England, 991, in literature ; Medium and Register ; Old English ; Philology ; Poetry ; Poets ; Politics ; Representation ; Stylistics of Literary Texts ; The Battle of Maldon ; The English Language ; treaty ; Vikings ; War poetry, English (Old)
É parte de: Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2012-10, Vol.111 (4), p.451-473
Descrição: Here, Neidorf challenges the reading of Maldon by focusing on two related issues that have been insufficiently considered in the poem's criticism: first, the poet's puzzlingly benign representation of the Vikings; second, the political demands that a policy of tribute payment would exert on a poet depicting recent Viking conflicts. Fred C Robinson observed 35 years ago that the Vikings in Maldon are represented "not as heinous villains but as a vague inimical force," yet critics have not fully appreciated the implications of this observation, nor have they reconciled it to the prevailing understanding of the poem's politics. Robinson noted even earlier that "the poet's terms for the foe seem curiously restrained and dispassionate, a remarkable feature when people remember that these marauders constitute the nemesis of the heroic English." He argues that the Maldon poet does precisely that: rather than inspire enmity, he takes great pains to avoid doing so; rather than encourage aggression, he makes clear gestures toward accommodation. He argues, further; that Maldon invites its audience to reinterpret the significance of the historical battle; that as a meditation on loyalty and heroism, Maldon becomes a poem less about present strife than about heroic ideals.
Editor: Urbana: University of Illinois Press
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II Æthelred and the Politics of The Battle of Maldon

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