R. D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Understandably, interest in the manuscript has centered on Beowulf,
and it is still called the Beowulf manuscript here,
though—unprecedentedly—this new book contains both text and
translations of all the Nowell manuscript’s items: the three prose
works that precede Beowulf—The Passion of St. Christopher, The
Wonders of the East, and The Letters of Alexander the Great to
Aristotle—as well as Judith. It is an inspired project. R. D. Fulk
is one of the world’s leading Beowulfians… Fulk has produced an
elegant, slightly archaized prose version of the poem (‘He lived to
see remedy for that’) that keeps to the same register for all the
items in the manuscript. His textual notes are predictably
authoritative, and he conveys a remarkable amount of information
within a small compass in his notes to the translations. …This
delightful book is a particularly graceful member of the
beautifully produced Dumbarton Oaks series.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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