Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature
Old English poetry and prose literature.
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Anglo-Saxon Riddles
translated by John Porter
A book full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles-a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon and a one-eyed garlic seller are just a few that bear witness to the every-day life and imagination of the Anglo-Saxons. Their sense ...
Paperback. Price GB £5.95
The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
edited by Hugh Magennis
A new edition of the first Western vernacular translation of the scandalous legend of St Mary, a Greek and then Latin tale of a woman who lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert for almost fifty years to atone for her previous life of immorality. The Old ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.99
Old English Literature
edited by R M Liuzza
This collection of 21 papers, written by leading authorities over the last 25 years, will provide a useful background to Old English prose and verse. The collection includes general discussions of the importance of the written word to Anglo-Saxon society, ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £17.95, Our Price GB £6.95
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings
edited by Mary P Richards
A selecion of 15 previously published classic essays which suggest new directions and potential developments in manuscript studies, an area of research essential for an understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture. The essays examine manuscripts which predate ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.99
The Beowulf Reader
edited by Peter Baker
A collection of thirteen wide ranging essays which present more recent theories on the poem's complex style and structure, its interpretation and date and authorship. Papers also present very different historical and intellectual backgrounds for ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.99
Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary
by Malcolm Godden
The last volume in the Early English Text Society's trilogy of books publishing the Catholic Homilies, the longest extant text in Old English. The homilies, written in two series in about 990, form a set of practical preaching texts and were the ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A Collaborative Edition 8: MS F
edited by Peter S Baker
The first modern edition of the Domitian Bilingual Chronicle - MSF - which is important not for its historical content but for its influential and well-informed compiler, translator and scribe who also revised MS A. In addition, the manuscript is an ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature
by John M Hill
John Hill aims to reconstruct Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards lordship through the detailed analysis of Old English heroic stories, including poems, most particularly Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, and Chronicle narratives. Focussing ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.50
Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature Volume VI: Old English Prose of King Alfred's Reign
by Greg Waite
During the 800s King Alfred instigated a programme of translation of Latin texts into Old English prose, many of which he undertook himself. This volume covers the manuscripts, editions and scholarship of six translations: Gregory the Great's Pastoral ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Basic Readings in Old English Prose
edited by Paul E. Szarmach
This aid to readers of Old English contains sixteen papers, three of which are published here for the first time, on the literary dimensions and wider implications of Old English prose texts. Papers consider the literary prose of Alfred's reign, Aelfric's ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
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