Elaine M. Treharne Boeken

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from ateam of leading European and American scholars.Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of theperiod.Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscriptsources with critical analysis and readings.Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxonstudies

The third edition of this successful anthology contains an imaginative selection of canonical and non-canonical material, arranged by date of manuscript, with full translations offered for all the Old and earlier Middle English material, along with marginal glosses for the later texts

Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous.