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Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey
edited by S. E. Kelly
Covers the pre-conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred; the only evidence for the history of Shaftesbury during this period.190p, illus (Oxford UP for the British Academy 1996)
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Charters of Sherbourne
O'Donovan, M. A.
This third volume of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Charters contains seventeen documents concerning the bishopric and monastery at Sherborne, and five charters from the abbey of Horton. Their dates range from AD 671 to AD 1061. They are here edited with full ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
edited and translated by Craig Williamson
Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. The poems are accompanied by a foreword by Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, ...
Hardback. Price GB £29.50

Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature
by Hugh Magennis
This new introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature draws on the latest research to set the literature firmly in its cultural context, and includes material on the whole range of literary texts, Latin as well as Old English. Chapters survey the development of the literary tradition, and address questions of genre, looking at narrative and non-narrative texts. A final section explores the medieval and later reception of Anglo-Saxon literature, and the ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.99
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures
edited by Richard North, Joe Allard and Patriia Gillies
Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition to Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and riddles, poems of devotion, sagas and histories, and romances. Laying out in parallel text format selections from the most important Old Engilsh, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman works, this anthology presents translated and annotated texts with useful ...
Paperback. Price GB £27.99

Myths, Legends and Heroes: Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature
edited by Daniel Anlezark
In Myths, Legends, and Heroes, editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent motifs in Northern literature. The essays in Myths, Legends, and Heroes include an examination of the theme of sibling ...
Hardback. Price GB £42.00

Old English Metre: An Introduction
by Jun Terasawa
Designed as an undergraduate textbook, this clear introduction guides the reader through the basics of Old English metre. Terasawa first concentrates on the building blocks of alliteration and rhythm, before moving on to more complex subjects of word choice, and grammatical and syntactic issues. A final chapter looks at problems of dating and authorship. Throughout the text is interspersed with exercises as an aid to learning. 154p (University ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.99

Old Testament Narratives
edited and translated by Daniel Anlezark
The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The first, the Old English Genesis, recounts biblical history from creation and the apocryphal fall of the angels to the sacrifice of Isaac; Abraham emerges as the central figure struggling through exile toward a lasting covenant with God. The ...
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Structuring Space: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England
by Lori Ann Garner
Through systematic exploration of the periods verbal and material culture as complementary art forms, Garner argues that in Anglo-Saxon England the arts of poetry and building emerged from the same cultural matrix. Not only did Anglo-Saxon builders and poets draw demonstrably from many of the same traditionally encoded motifs and images, but so rhetorically powerful was the periods architectural poetics that its expressive force continued in ...
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Beowulf Manuscript
edited and translated by R.D. Fulk
Part of the new Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, this volume contains the Old English text and a parallel translation of Beowulf, contextualised alongside the other verse and prose works also contained in its sole surviving manuscript: The Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle and Judth. It also includes the fragmentary Fight at Finnsburg. 374p (Dunbarton Oaks Medieval ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95