A History of Old English Literature

This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.

• This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies
• Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings
• Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
• Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters
• Demonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates

Keywords: Old, Middle & Medieval English Literature, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, riddle, Beowulf, liturgical text, lyric poetry, Germanic legend, Alfredian literature