This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language that the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. The patterns of meter and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his language, but were part of the language that he spoke, the rules of which constituted his metrical grammar. Professor Kendall investigates the constraints of syntax, meter and alliteration that govern the formal art of Beowulf. He shows how the half-lines of the poem, which are the basic units of...

This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language that the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. The patterns of meter and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his language, but were part of the language that he spoke, the rules of which constituted his metrical grammar. Professor Kendall investigates the constraints of syntax, meter and alliteration that govern the formal art of Beowulf. He shows how the half-lines of the poem, which are the basic units of...

A collection of 10 essays on The legacy of Sutton Hoo' emerging from a conference organized by the University of Minnesota in 1989. Contributors include: Alan Stahl (the Sutton Hoo coin parcel); Edward Schoenfield and Jana Schulman (an economic assessment); Roberta Frank, Robert Creed (Beowulf and Sutton Hoo); Simon Keynes (Raedwald the Bretwalda); Wesley Stevens (sidereal time in Anglo-Saxon England); Else Roesdahl (princely burial in Scandinavia); Henrik Jansen (the archaeology of Danish commercial centres); Martin Carver (the future of Sutton Hoo) .

Verse inscriptions in stone appeared in abundance on the faCades of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Marking the place where medieval worshippers were transported from secular to sacred space, portal verse inscriptions provide important, and often overlooked, insights into the dynamic function of the portals and their art.

The Allegory of the Church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these...