Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature
Old English poetry and prose literature.
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Ecclesiastical History of the British People
Bede,
Written in AD 731, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. It begins with Julius Caesars invasion in the first century BC and goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop government and convert the peopleicraed r, vivid portrait of an emerging church and nation by the Father of ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
by Richard Marsden
This study presents the first comprehensive listing and collation of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of the Old Testament and raises valuable questions about the number and nature of Vulgate copies circulating in England. Marsden examines twenty suvivng Anglo-Saxon manuscripts including the Codex Amiatinus, one of the greatest English books and the earliest surviving complete Vulgat Bible. 506p, 9 illus (Cambridge UP 1995)
Hardback. Price GB £75.00
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Colgrave, Bertram
Bede's Ecclesiastical History was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. By the end of the eighth century copies of it were to be found in many parts of England and on the Continent, and some of these are still ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00
The Monsters and the Critics
Tolkien, J. R. R.
A collection of seven essays by Tolkien delivered as lectures on various occasions over a period of nearly thirty years. They arise from Tolkien's interest in and research on medlieval literature and language and include discussions of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as his lectures English and Welsh, A Secret Vice, On Fairy-Stories and his Valedictory Address to the University of ...
Paperback. Price GB £8.99
Bede: The Reckoning of Time
translated, with introduction, notes and commentary by Faith Wallis
Bede's The Reckoning of time was the first comprehensive treatise on the science of time and the art of calendar construction. He brought the Christian concept of time within a scientific framework and became the leading authority on the subject, ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
edited and translated by R.M. Liuzza
Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs
edited and translated by Craig Williamson
Craig Williamson offers a new translation into modern English poetry of the 91 riddles compiled in the Exeter Book. He includes a substantial introduction which explores the genre of the Old-English riddle and their popularity and role in Anglo-Saxon ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.00
Aelfric's De Temporibus Anni
edited by Martin Blake
"De Temporibus Anni", a concise handbook of calendar and computus, astronomy and natural science, dates from the late tenth century. It seems to have circulated anonymously, but analysis of its language and content shows it to be by AElfric, one of the ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
A Companion to Aelfric
edited by Hugh Magennis
This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key ...
Hardback. Price GB £150.00
The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
edited and translated by Daniel Anlezark
The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41, are some of the most complex Old English texts to survive. The first two dialogues, in verse and prose, present the pagan god Saturn in human form interrogating ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
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