Language & Literature
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The Combined Anglo-Saxon Chronicles [Paperback]
Guy Points (Author)
£12.95ISBN: 9780955767920
Published by : Guy Points
This book enables rapid access to the events recorded in any one year in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which was created in the late ninth century. Multiple copies were made and sent to monasteries in England where they were then inde... .... Learn More -
Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire [Paperback]
David Clark (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780199558155
Published by : Oxford University Press
This challenging and well-written study approaches the elusive question of the nature of same-sex relations and attitudes to them in Old English Literature from a variety of perspectives. It continually throws up questions about our assumptions... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature [Hardback]
Clare Lees (Editor)
£100.00ISBN: 9780521190589
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Informed by multi-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to th... .... Learn More -
Old English Literature and the Old Testament [Hardback]
Michael Fox (Author); Manish Sharma (Author)
£55.99ISBN: 9780802098542
Published by : University of Toronto Press
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which su... .... Learn More -
Runes: A Handbook [Hardback]
Michael P. Barnes (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781843837787
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscr... .... Learn More -
Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies [Hardback]
Jacqueline Stodnick (Editor); Renee R. Trilling (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9781444330199
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This collection of new and original essays explores the relationship between contemporary critical theory and the study of Anglo-Saxon England. Core terminology familiar from critical theory, such as "ethnicity", "g... .... Learn More -
Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Catherine A M Clarke (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781843843191
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing in particular on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, ... .... Learn More -
Norse in Newfoundland: A Critical Examination of Archaeological Research at the Norse Site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland [Paperback]
Janet E Kay (Author)
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Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 960-1100 [Hardback]
D G Scragg (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843842866
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This is the first comprehensive annotated list of the scribal hands whose work survives from the time of the Benedictine Reform under King Edgar to that of the generation succeeding the Norman Conquest. More than a thousand hands ... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics [Hardback]
Roy M. Liuzza (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843842552
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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... .... Learn More