The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature.

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-01

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John M. Hill, The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), x + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1769-6. $55.00.

In this book, John M. Hill sets out to reassess the hoary topics associated with the `warrior ethic' in Old English literature. In a series of studies of well-known (in most cases classroom) texts, he applies psychological and ethnographic criteria...

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