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This Element explores ideas about the sick and healthy body in early medieval England, proposing that Old English texts offer coherent ideas about how human... Læs mere
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New evidence for the relationship between the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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This Element shows why entertainment and festivity had important functions, in ritual, in community, in assuming power, and in resistance to power of... Læs mere
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Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it... Læs mere
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An examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals of the year and their reflection in the secular church.
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This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. It is done by collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar.
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This edition of the anonymously-authored, Middle English poem, "Pearl", is offered with a verse translation, Middle English text, and a commentary. On each page,... Læs mere
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Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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The Saxon Age (1979) presents a vivid portrait of the daily life of Saxon England. Using the first hand evidence of contemporary writers, artists and craftsmen, the book conveys the mood and style of the Saxons from the royal court to a peasant’s hut.
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Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden; the ‘elegies’, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible... Læs mere
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The Origins of England (1986) examines the crucial period of migration and settlement that can be seen as the beginning of English history. It takes into account recent... Læs mere
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The Origins of Britain (1980) follows the path of man’s occupation of Britain from the scattered pockets of habitation in the earliest Palaeolithic period through to his growing domination of the landscape and his capacity to mould his environment evident in the late Bronze Age.