Old English imaginations of the East: The other texts in the Beowulf manuscript

Beowulf is awesome! But the other Old English texts in the Beowulf manuscript are interesting as well - not in the least because they give us an idea of how Anglo-Saxons imagined areas including Northern Africa and the Middle East.

The third of four videos on cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa and the Middle East. This video series is sponsored by Leiden University's Jusitce, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion [JEDI] fund.

Script and on camera: Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck
Camera and editing: Thomas Vorisek, Leiden University

Blog post on The Wonders of the East as an early medieval Pokedex: https://thijsporck.com/2016/07/24/med...

Image credits:
Drawings by Thijs Porck (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Manuscript image of St Christopher: Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.hist.fol.415, fol. 50r. (Public Domain)
Manuscript images from the British Library: Courtesy of the British Library Board, London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv; Cotton Tiberius B.v, fol.83v
Image of Alexander the Great fighting dog-headed cynocephali: National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 481, fol. 92r (Public Domain)
Judith and Holofernes image: Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Nuremberg Chronicle, fol. 69r (1493). Wikimedia commons (Public Domain)
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