Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford scholar and co-author of the bestselling A Guide to Old English, 6th edition Encourages readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical contexts of Old English texts Explores the problems scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts Contributors provide authoritative and informative perspectives, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic

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Product Description: This new edition features brand new articles and respected writers. The book is structured in three parts: emerging concerns, enduring concerns, and responses. While featuring up-to-the-moment issues and the latest data and research, the book never strays from the philosophy of student accessibility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The seventh edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated, and includes two new, much-requested texts: the Cotton Gnomes and Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupia ad Anglos – and two new appendices: A List of Linguistic Terms Used in This Book and The Moods of Old English...read more

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Product Description: This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is an introduction to Old English language and literature, set within the context of Anglo-Saxon history and society. Parts I, II, and V provide the reader with an understanding of, and, in particular, the ability to read, Old English. Part III presents a wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon England, and Part IV a representative selection of 51 prose and verse texts, each introduced and placed in context. The book is illustrated with maps, line-drawings and photographs, and concludes with a glossary tailored to meet the needs of those encountering Old English for the first time. The author's aim is to allow the reader both to understand Anglo-Saxon society and to experience the richness of its literature and culture.

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Product Description: This work supplements the author's two-volume "Old English Syntax" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985). It contains what is intended to be a bibliography complete to the end of 1984, of books, doctoral dissertations, articles, notes and reviews, on the syntax of Old English, with cross-references and with comments on items other than reviews; a subject index thereto; and the index of authors and reviewers which is (by design) missing in "Old English Syntax" but which gives references to both books...read more

Product Description: This work is designed to provide an analytical framework for problem-solving and research work within a resource management course for advanced undergraduate students in geography. The author has attempted to cover the material which he thinks necessary for such students...read more

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Product Description: Aims to chart the whole realm of the syntax of Old English. The difficulties inherent in the study of old English syntax make a prescriptive analysis virtually impossible at this point. For this reason, the books do not lay down rules but rather make suggestions, demonstrate, where appropriate, the possibility of different interpretation, summarize the present state of knowledge about the phenomena discussed, and indicate possible lines of research in the future...read more