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Beowulf and the Bureaucrats

Early medievalists suffer from a type of historiographical schizophrenia unknown to other fields. Traditional historical periodization leaves them in little doubt as to the general scholarly view of the age to which their efforts are devoted. Barbaric indeed were the "Dark Ages" that extinguished the Roman light; uncouth in the extreme were the petty chieftains with their greasy war bands who feasted and grunted their way through the long European night. "Nasty, brutish, and short"—the issue of height aside, the phrase still captures for many nonmedievalists the essence both of the Germanic tribes themselves and of the era they inaugurated. For such historians, not even the