Product Description: Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time...read more

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This translation of the ninth-century epic poem, considered the first great work of English literature, was originally intended for nonnative speakers of English with the intention of reducing difficulties present in the Old English style.

Provides an analysis of the epic poem

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Product Description: Even the Venerable Bede knew little about the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms described in this book. In the sixth and seventh centuries the pagan peoples of the Hwicce and Magonsaetan occupied the frontier from Stratford-upon-Avon as far as the Welsh kingdoms west of Offa's Dyke...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Working directly from the manuscript text of "Beowulf", this book demonstrates how John Mitchell Kemble constructed his verse arrangement. The author provides a study of the prosody of the poem and examines Old English poetry, early Scandinavian poetry, and Anglo-Saxon history and pre-history...read more

Product Description: For many years there has been lively debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come down to us is primarily the product of oral composition or primarily written, insofar as it is transmitted only in manuscript...read more

Prose translations of most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and other manuscripts in a style accessible to a modern audience and yet close to Old English. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This reissue of Neil Ker's great Catalogue includes Ker's own twelve-page Supplement of additions and corrections originally published in volume V of the journal of Anglo-Saxon England. The work includes all manuscripts written in the vernacular earlier than approximately 1200 A...read more

Product Description: This book translates the ultimate source of the Old English poem Andreas, the Greek Praxeis Andreou; its analogue/source, the complete Latin recension of the Codex Casanatensis; the fragmentary Latin Bonnet Fragment; and the Old English Homily contained in the Blickling Book...read more

Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Product Description: This book contains the twenty-three prose works of The Vercelli Book, a late tenth-century manuscript. With the exception of some three or four homilies, these works have never before appeared in translated form, much less in a collection...read more

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A new translation of the first narrative poem in the English language closely follows the original poetic form and includes an introduction that discusses the poem's historical background, structure, form, principal characters, religion, and importance