Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature
ISBN: 9781442679580
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Devil in literature; English literature -- Old English ca. 450–1100 -- History and criticism;

The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the devil's nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos.


Dendle Peter Jonathan :

Peter Dendle is Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto.

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