Basilisks and Beowulf
Basilisks and Beowulf An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview--now in paperback.This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons…
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Basilisks and Beowulf
An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview--now in paperback.This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? For the Anglo-Saxons, monsters helped to distinguish the sacred and the profane; they carried God's message to mankind, exposing His divine hand in creation itself. Drawing on literature and art, theology, and a wealth of firsthand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic and the grotesque as a way of understanding the world around them and their place within it.
Learning about where monsters lived and how they behaved allowed the At the same time, monsters were agents of disorder, seeking to kill people, conquer their lands, and even challenge what it meant to be human.