Language & Literature
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Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture [Hardback]
Susan Irvine (Editor); Winfried Rudolf (Editor)
Regular Price: £61.99
Special Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781487502027
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their e... .... Learn More -
Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World [Hardback]
Eric Cambridge (Editor); Jane Hawkes (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781785703072
Published by : Oxbow Books
Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplina... .... Learn More -
Guta Lag and Guta Saga [Hardback]
Christine Peel (Editor)
Regular Price: £125.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781138804210
Published by : Routledge
Guta Lag, the law of the independent island of Gotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia. The historical appendix to the law, Guta Saga, was written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Together, Guta Lag and its accompanying Saga pr... .... Learn More -
Viking Language 2 [Paperback]
Jesse L. Byock (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781481175265
Published by : Jules William Press
Volume: 2
Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (the 2nd book in the Viking Language Series) immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, ... .... Learn More -
John the Baptist's Prayer or the Descent into Hell from the Exeter Book [Hardback]
M R Rambaran-Olm (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781843843665
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Old English poem known popularly as the Descent into Hell, found on folios 119v to 121v of the Exeter Book, has to date received little critical attention, perhaps owing to various contextual problems and lacunae on the leaves that contain it.... .... Learn More -
Between Earth and Heaven [Hardback]
Johanna Kramer (Author)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780719087899
Published by : Manchester University Press
Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audie... .... Learn More -
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 independently updated... .... Learn More -
Viking Language 1 [Paperback]
Jesse L. Byock (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781480216440
Published by : Jules William Press
Volume: 1
Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas (the first book in the Viking Language Series) is a new introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic. The beginner has everything in one book: Graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, ... .... Learn More -
Saints and Scholars [Hardback]
Stuart McWilliams (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781843843030
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reco... .... Learn More -
Anonymous Interpolations in Aelfric's Lives of Saints [Paperback]
Robin Norris (Author)
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Special Price: £4.95
