This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

• An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.
  
• Structured around 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
  
• Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.
  
• Creates new connections between different genres, periods and...

This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day.

• Traces the erotic myth of Lady Godiva back to its medieval origins.
  
• Based on scholarly research but written to be accessible to general readers.
  
• Combines history, literature, art and folklore.
  
• Focuses on the twin themes of voyeurism and medievalism.
  
• Contributes to our understanding of cultural...

This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day.

• Traces the erotic myth of Lady Godiva back to its medieval origins.
  
• Based on scholarly research but written to be accessible to general readers.
  
• Combines history, literature, art and folklore.
  
• Focuses on the twin themes of voyeurism and medievalism.
  
• Contributes to our understanding of cultural...

This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

• An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.
  
• Structured around 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
  
• Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.
  
• Creates new connections between different genres, periods and...

With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-century text and its modern translation.