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Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature

Bede: On Tobit and on the Canticle of Habakkuk
by Seán Connolly
A new translation of Bede's Biblical commentary on the Tobit and the Canticle of Habakkuk - which was sung in the monastic liturgy every Friday. This is the first time that both have been translated into English and made much more accessible. There is a useful introduction, notes and bibliography supplemented by an index of names and themes which allows easy cross-referencing. 141p (Four Courts Press 1997)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899
by Michael Lapidge
A volume surveying the earlier Anglo-Latin Literature ... it consists of previously published essays by Michael Lapidge which examine: patronage, Archishop Theodore, Greek at Canterbury in the 7th century, the school of Hadrian and Theodore, glosses, verse, monsters, Bede, the York school, Venantius Fortunatus, Latin learning in the 9th century, the study of Latin texts in the later Anglo-Saxon period. 570p (Hambledon 1996)
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The `Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
by Jane Stevenson
The `Laterculus Malalianis' is an historical exegesis of the life of Christ that is probably the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury. This volume presents the Latin text of the `Laterculus', a modern translation, and an extensive commentary. Stevenson's introduction examines the intellectual millieu of the work and of Theodore's Canterbury. 254p. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 14, ...
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The Anglo-Saxon World
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
This sourcebook introduces the reader to Anglo-Saxon culture through a wide selection of Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry. All are translated into English and edited by Crossley-Holland. Texts include heroic poems, laws, samples from the Chronicle, elegies, Beowulf, religious visions and poems, letters, Lives, riddles, tracts, charms and sermons. Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon and the elgies are among those presented in full. Each ...
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Bede: On the Tabernacle
translated by Arthur G. Holder
The first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of the Christian Church. De tabernaculo, written in Northumbria in the early 720's, was one of Bede's most popular works, appearing in numerous manuscripts from every period of the Middle Ages. Includes notes and introduction. 192p. (Liverpool UP 1994)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £15.00, Our Price GB £4.95

Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School...
by Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge
This volume contains the first edition of a previously unknown early medieval text discovered by Bischoff in Milan in 1936. The biblical commentaries, presented here in Latin with facing translations, represent the teaching of two Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East in the 8th century. Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, and his colleague Hadrian established a school at Canterbury, to which they brought a wealth of ...
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The Old English Lives of Saint Margaret
by Mary Clayton and Hugh Maennis
Saint Margaret of Antioch became one of the most widely celebrated of medieval saints and the patron saint of childbirth. This book presents two Old English versions of her legend, the Cotton Tiberius A. iii (composite text) and the Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 manuscript. The texts, published together for the first time, include facing translation and commentary, together with an extensive introduction to their background, sources, the ...
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Poetic Art of Aldhelm
by Andy Orchard
Aldhelm of Malmesbury was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin metrical verse, and his Latin works were amongst the most influential in Anglo-Saxon England. This first book-length study of Aldhelm's poetic art traces the sources and models for his idiosyncratic style, the nature and extent of his influence on later Anglo-Latin verse, and his innovations in Latin verse technique. 314p. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon ...
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Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry
by Sarah Lynn Higley
This study reads Welsh and Old English nature poetry alongside each other, aiming to get away from anglo-centric concepts of otherness and sameness, as well as template and variation, to examine connections and quirks which may not be obvious when the two traditions are read in isolation. 314p (Penn State Press 1993)
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Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
edited by J. E. Cross
The publication of a rare find - the precise manuscript source for two Old English texts. The manuscript is in the library at Saint-Omer where it was composed in the ninth century at the monastery of Saint-Bertin. In the margins three scribes have written in Old English and it is argued here that the manuscript was brought to Exeter where it formed the basis for the old English apocryphal stories - 'The Gospel of Nichodemus' and 'The Avenging of ...
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