Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

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Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript is written by Simon C. Thomson and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004360867 (ISBN 10) and 9789004360860 (ISBN 13).

In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.