Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature
Old English poetry and prose literature.
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The Origins of Beowulf
by Sam Newton
This book reconsiders the question of the origin of Beowulf, the author arguing that there is no compelling linguistic evidence for the date of its composition, but that independant orthographic, lexical and phonological indications suggest an ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
The Exeter Book: A Bibliography
compiled by Bernard J. Muir
148p. (Exeter UP 1992)
Hardback. Price GB £22.95
The Lindisfarne Gospels
by Janet Backhouse
Reproduction of all the important pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels, with the history behind their nmanufacture and decoration. 96p with 66 b/w & col illus. (Phaidon 1992)
Paperback. Price GB £9.99
Aelfric's Colloquy
edited by G. N. Garmonsway
Revised edition 1991. 74p. (Exeter UP 1991)
Paperback. Price GB £12.99
Alfred's Metres of Boethius
edited by Bill Griffiths
In these poems, King Alfred re-built the Latin verses from Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (`On the Consolation of Philosophy') into new alliterative poems, via an Old English prose intermediary. The stirring images and stories of Boethius' ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
The Battle of Maldon
translated and edited by Bill Griffiths
Text and translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. 89p (Anglo-Saxon Books, 1991)
Paperback. Price GB £5.95
Books and Grace: AElfric's Theology
by Lynne Grundy
290p. (King's College, Medieval Studies 6, 1991)
Paperback. Price GB £16.50
edited by R. W. Southern and F. S. Schmitt
Southern, R. W.
A volume of Latin texts preserved by being recorded by Anselm's friends and disciples who took down his words, transcribed his writings before they were completed, and preserved his unfinished drafts and notes. The extent to which these texts preserve an ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £17.50, Our Price GB £6.95
The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
by Calvin B. Kendall
Argues that the formal art of Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the traditional oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. 318p (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 5, 1991)
Hardback. Price GB £70.00
Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Sign Language
edited with notes and translation by Debby Banham
This is one of the very few texts which let us see how life was really lived in monasteries in the early Middle Ages. Written in Old English and preserved in a manuscript of the mid-eleventh century, it consists of 127 signs used by Anglo-Saxon monks ...
Paperback. Price GB £6.95
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