Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also compose...

This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons i...

This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons i...

A study of 'interim paradise': the temporary abode of souls after death and before Doomsday.

Describes the early conversion to Christianity of the pagan peoples of an area stretching from St...

'Beowulf' is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from Anglo-Saxon Eng...

Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and...

The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multi...

The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multi...

This book discusses the attitudes toward Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and...

How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book,...

This is an extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. The cir...

This 1999 book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, a...

This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jenni...

Radical reinterpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon thought and society.

The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding ce...

'Beowulf' is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from Anglo-Saxon Eng...

A substantial study of the Latin poetry of Aldhelm, 'the first English man of letters'.

This book explores ideas of community and of the relationship of individuals to communities widel...

A substantial study of the Latin poetry of Aldhelm, 'the first English man of letters'.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 47

The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the ...

Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries ...

'Then there came from the moor, under the misty slopes, Grendel approaching: he bore the wrath of...

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North , The Elder Edda is one of the classic books ...

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on Old English Literature, the 'T...

The essays in Latin Learning and English Lore cover material from the beginning of the Anglo-Saxo...

Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles pro...

This authoritative commentary is the most comprehensive examination to date of the bilingual ridd...

Beowulf: A Casebook