Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society. He proposes a dynamic principle of Old English poetry, very different from the common notion of formulas slotted into poems for stylistic variation. Carefully thought out and elegantly written, this book is also accessible to students: its numerous quotations are accompanied by modern English translations.

Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historic, archaeological and artistic. Articles in this volume include The nature of Christianity in Beowulf, Hidden glosses in manuscripts of Old English Poetry, The Maaseik embroideries, From ?palace? to ?town?: Northampton and urban origins, A new charter of King Edgar, From memory to record: musical notations in manuscripts from Exeter, Stylistic disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood and Feasts of the Virgin in...