Product Description: The fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine, witness recent publications such as Martin Blake's edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni (2009), and the proceedings of the Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft projects...read more

Product Description: This book offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin.

Product Description: Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on Old English poetry has remained largely undefined...read more

Product Description: Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literature...read more

Product Description: This selection of literary texts ranges from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Old and Middle English Texts with Accompanying Textual and Linguistic Apparatus contains significant selections from medieval literature starting with an excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 449 and ending with an excerpt from Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, 1485...read more

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.

Product Description: Boards have edge wear. No DJ. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Inv.# G0195