Product Description: R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013. 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 interpretation of dreams...read more

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Old English translations of the Latin Gospels are considered to be one of the major literary and cultural achievements of the late Anglo-Saxon period. This, the final volume in the series, is a companion to The Old English Version of the Gospels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This edition, based on a new examination of the manuscript evidence, is the first modern critical edition of the Old English translation of the Latin gospels.

Product Description: In this, the first significant study of Orosius's History of the Pagans, Richard Schrader finds a new perspective from which to view the design of events in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and other early English writings...read more