Pre-Feudal Women

Authors

  • Janet T. Buck Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v34i2.1517

Keywords:

Beowulf, Women's roles,

Abstract

Buck looks at social forces that can be perceived in the poem Beowulf and discovers that the early medieval North European rearing produced a wonderful "breed" of warriors and fellow-warriors, with attractively tragic and pathetic women in the burh-loca of all their backgrounds. Their form of social bonding can be relied on only to produce more of the same, hence is not appropriate at present to our society.

Author Biography

Janet T. Buck, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-06-05

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