This innovative collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the latest reworkings of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the volume constitute new work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual manuscripts incorporating paleographic and orthographic studies; others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English texts; and all highlight the need to...

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.

• Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.
  
• Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.
  
• Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings.
  
• Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies

Old and Middle English Poetry gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer.

• Contains a selection of the most significant Old and Middle English Poetry.
  
• Encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.
  
• Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years.
  
• Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how...

Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages.

• New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literature
• Now extended to include newly-edited versions of Old English Wonders of the East, of Poema Morale, extracts from Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
• Full translations are offered for the Old and earlier Middle English material, along with marginal glosses for the...