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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Maldon"”.
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
In The Battle of Maldon, the valor of the English who fight is never in question. The infamy of the cowards who flee is evident. The way the poet views the Vikings, however, is slightly less obvious. The poet treats all characters who act within the contract of battle with a sort of biased …
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Collecting, communicating, and commemorating: The significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704
… books and pamphlets to the Library he endowed in Maldon. They take the form of notebooks and papers complied by a number of different clergymen, in particular Dr Robert Boreman (d.1675) and Dr Edward Hyde (1607-1659), in addition to Plume. The significance of the research lies in its …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
… in English war poetry, from the Battle of Maldon to the outbreak of the First World War, was an heroic one, and that the poets of the Great War wrote largely in reaction to this tradition.
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Constructing the Christian: Agency and Emulation in Old English Poetry
<p>Old English religious verse - born out of a productive fusion between pre-existing Germanic ideals and Christian value-systems brought to England at the end of the sixth century - grapples energetically with the question of how people ought to live morally upright lives pleasing to God. In …