Beowulf Ratzinger and the contemporary phase (World

and the contemporary phase (World War I to 1935)

and politics

so good to be here

Walter Farrell

Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) was a Dutch historian

Beowulf Ratzinger and the contemporary phase (WorldTranslated by Ben J. Reinhard Dating from the age of Bede the Venerable, Beowulf is the quintessential Anglo Saxon poem, the heroic elegaic of man versus monsters. The hero, Beowulf, defends the Danes against the rampaging Grendel and his monstrous mother, and returns home, where he lives long and prosperously. At lifes end, however, he must confront the final foe, death, in battle with a dragon, deadly and ancient. Hark! We have heard of the Spear