Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. — xvi, 290 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 122). In the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their staging of entanglements between human life courses and those of the nonhuman or more-than-human. While Old...
Brepols, 2025. — 453 p. — (Studies in Old English Literature 5). The Physiologus is the ancestor of the bestiary, a collection of chapters describing animal qualities and behaviours, usually with an allegorical meaning, which proliferated especially in England in the late Middle Ages. While much scholarly attention has been directed to the bestiary, the history of the...
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — XIV, 378 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). This is the first edition of "Andreas" for 55 years, also the first to present the Anglo-Saxon, or rather Old English, text with a parallel Modern English poetic translation. The book aim not only to provide both students and scholars with an up-to-date text and introduction and notes, but...
University of Toronto Press, 1961. — 105 p. This Dictionary is based primarily on the text of The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (edd. George P. Krapp and Elliott V. K. Dobbie, New York, 1931-1953), with additional references adjusted to other modern editions of individual poems. It is a gloss to the crucial 40 per cent of the poetic vocabulary—some 3000 parent words, mostly...
University of Nottinghame, 2024. — 115 p. Alfredian literature is at the forefront of early-medieval English (AngloSaxon) literary studies today. Scholars have largely been preoccupied with debating how much of the corpus is authentically Alfred’s and how much was composed by others under the king’s name. I shall address a more pertinent question: what do these texts reveal...
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2023. — 176 p. — (Medieval Media and Culture). The first extended study of supernatural discourse in Old English poetry, Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse fills a conspicuous gap in the scholarship of early medieval literature. Drawing insights from various disciplines, including critical discourse analysis, social psychology, and oral...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 496 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 16). This is the first extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. The circumstances surrounding their composition and transmission are mysterious: none is ascribed to a named author and none situated even relatively within the development of Anglo-Saxon...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 216 p. — (New Directions in Religion and Literature). The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted,...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 254 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 96). English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — XII, 240 p. — (Toronto Old English Series 18). While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric. 'Verse and Virtuosity' demonstrates how Old English poets imitated and adapted the methods of Latin literature, and, in...
Leeds: ARC; Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 206 p. — (Arc Reference). A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts is the definitive handbook for students, scholars, and observers of the non-human in early medieval England. In this interdisciplinary compendium to the animal inhabitants of medieval Britain, Preston documents each creature mentioned in the Old English literary...
New edition. — University of Exeter Press; Liverpool University Press, 1996. — 165 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP). The Dream Of The Rood Is A Poem That Has Entranced Generations Of Scholars. It Is One Of The Greatest Religious Poems In English Literature, The Work Of A Nameless Poet Of Superb Genius. Immediately Attractive, Its Poetic Content Is Readily Accessible...
3rd Edition. — London: Methuen & Co, 1961. — VIII+40 p. — (Methuen’s Old English Library). "Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found in the late-10th-century collection the "Exeter Book". The poem consists of the lament of the scop Deor, who lends his name to the poem, which was given no formal title. The present edition of Deor (the first separate edition...
Revised edition. — Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962. — 236 p. — (Anglistica 13). The present edition of "Widsith" is based upon my own transcript of the Exeter Book text. This transcript has been collated with the text as given in the facsimile edition and in the various printed editions of the poem from Conybeare to Mackie. The interpretation of the text, though an...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 424 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 132). The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion...
Revised edition. — University of Exeter Press, 1990. — IX, 56 p. — (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies). Edition of 'Cædmon’s Hymn', 'Bede’s Death Song' and 'The Leiden Riddle' with contextual introduction, notes and glossary. The grouping of these three short poems in one volume is made possible by the nature of the problems involved in their study. These problems have...
London: Methuen, 1968. — X, 54 p. — (Methuen’s Old English Library). Edition of 'Cædmon’s Hymn', 'Bede’s Death Song' and 'The Leiden Riddle' with contextual introduction, notes and glossary. The grouping of these three short poems in one volume is made possible by the nature of the problems involved in their study. These problems have been elaborately treated, but the texts...
Tenth Edition. — Hulbert James R. (ed.). — Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2007. — 357 p. The primary purpose of the authors of the Elements of Old English has been to produce an introductory book which will facilitate and expedite the teaching and study of Old English in such classes as their own, composed of graduate and advanced undergraduate students. To attain...
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. — 304 p. This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting...
Ninth edition, revised by Norman Davis. — Oxford University Press, 1974. — 135 p. Sweet’s Primer first appeared in 1882, and was last revised for the eighth edition of 1905. It is not surprising that in the interval methods of presentation should have changed. The Primer, though designed as an introduction to Sweet’s Reader, has tended to fall out of use, but nothing has...
Boydell & Brewer, 2011. — 308 p. — (Anglo-Saxon texts 8). Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013. Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 230 p. — (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 18). Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era are the source for the majority of...
D.S.Brewer, 2011. — 272 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 16). The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede's original, was well known and...
Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. — 224 p. — (Medieval and renaissance texts and studies 361). Of the large body of Old English literary works written in prose, homilies (including both homiliae and sermones) are perhaps the most important genre, both in the number of texts that have survived and the literary quality they achieve. There...
University of Toronto Press, 1979. — 129 p. — (Toronto Old English Series 4). At King Alfred’s command, Bishop Wærferth of Worcester translated Gregory’s Dialogues into English during the last quarter of the ninth century. About a century or a century and a half later, between 950 and 1050, someone, probably again at Worcester, went through the translation with painstaking...
Second Revised Edition. — Brill, 2000. — 721-1562 p. — (Costerus New Series 132). A Thesaurus of Old English is conceptually arranged, and presents the vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon England within ordered categories. This allows the user to approach the materials of the Thesaurus by subject rather than through an alphabetic index as is the case for many thesauri. The provision of...
Brill, 1989. — 195 p. — (Costerus New Series 74). Introduction Speaking Words of Wisdom God’s Creation Against Sickness The Wisdom of Beowulf Woman Against the Fiend The Fame—Blessed Hero Chapter Seven The Best of Riddles
Second Revised Edition. — Brill, 2000. — xxxvi, 719 p. — (Costerus New Series 131). A Thesaurus of Old English is conceptually arranged, and presents the vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon England within ordered categories. This allows the user to approach the materials of the Thesaurus by subject rather than through an alphabetic index as is the case for many thesauri. The provision of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 305 p. — (NOWELE Supplement Series 25). This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that...
Brill, 2022. — 437 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 12). The Old English Case System. Case and Argument Structure Constructions by Kirsten Middeke is a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work. This is the first major study on Old English morphosyntax from...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. — xviii, 318 p. — (NOWELE Supplement Series 22). This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus,...
Peter Lang, 2020. — 344 p. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 57). This book provides new insights on different aspects of Old and Middle Eng-lish language and literature, presenting state-of-the-art analyses of linguistic phenomena and literary developments in those periods and opening up new directions for future work in the field. The volume tackles...
Oxford: Routledge, 2024. — 220 p. — (Routledge Studies in Medieval History and Culture). Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian...