Anglo-Saxon / Old English literature
Old English poetry and prose literature.
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Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
by Kevin Kiernan
A controversial book, thoroughly based on the single surviving manuscript itself which argues for a radically foreshortened transmission of the text and the need to closely examine the competence of the scribes, the choices they made and how this affects ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.95
The Dating of Beowulf
edited by Colin Chase
A seminal collection of studies on the date of Beowulf, now back in print, that overturned previous scholarship and raised much new information. 220p (Toronto UP, Pb 1997)
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
An Index of Theme and Image to the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
by Robert DiNapoli
An index of the homilies (not the texts), including the homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan and the Blickling and Vercelli codices, allowing both the researcher and the general reader to range more freely across the landscape of these crucial texts. 128p ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.95
Judith
edited by Mark Griffith
This is the first fully critical edition of the famous Old English poem since 1888. In addition to the text and a comprehensive glossary, it includes a detailed introduction and commentary, appendices giving the Latin sources and a complete metrical ...
Paperback. Price GB £11.99
Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry
by Pauline E. Head
A study of Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation beginning with the assumption that Anglo-Saxon concepts of reading were very different from our own. Emphasis is placed on the need to examine the interaction between content and ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.50
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle VI;Ms D
Edited by G. P. Cubbin
The sixth volume of the Boydell and Brewer edition of the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is manuscript D which was found in Worcester Cathedral. During the middle of the 10th century the manuscript appears to have been created from earlier ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Anglo-Saxon Religious Verse Allegories
edited and translated by Louis Rodrigues
Translations of the Old English poems The Panther, The Phoenix, The Whale and The Partridge along with the Old English texts, designed to be read easily by a non-academic audience. With parallel translations and appendices of ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.95
The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Power and Patronage in Ninth-Century England
Brown, Michelle P
A study of palaeography, manuscript art and devotional history that makes an important contribution to research in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. 248p, 50 b/w and 5 col illus (British Library 1996)
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Cynewulf's Elene
edited by P. O. E. Gradon
A scholarly edition of the Old English poem Elene, which narrates the legendary discovery of the True Cross by Helena, the mother of Constantine. The probable date of composition is early ninth century. New edition 1996. 124p. (Exeter UP 1977, ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.99
Aldfrith's Beowulf
translated by Paula Grant
A translation in blank verse along with a statement of the argument that it concerns the Geats, not of sweden but Northumbrian Deira. It is suggests that its authors may have been King Aldfrith of Northumbria. 132p (Llanerch 1995)
Paperback. Price GB £10.00
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