#anglo-saxon studies
Old English Literature: A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings
Old English Literature: A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings John D. Niles This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the…
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100. Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the…
The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms 600–900 and the beginnings of the Old English state
The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms 600–900 and the beginnings of the Old English state BARBARA YORKE Der fruhmittelalterliche Staat, ed. W. Pohl and V. Wieser (Vienna 2008), 73-88 There has, of course, been much debate about the validity and desirability of using the term ‘state’ in a medieval context. Measurements of medieval statehood against definitions of the modern ‘nationstate’ inevitably fail – even…
Erudition and Charm Poetry in Anglo-Saxon England: Solomon & Saturn I and the Nine Herbs Charm
Erudition and Charm Poetry in Anglo-Saxon England: Solomon & Saturn I and the Nine Herbs Charm. Elton O. S. Medeiros Mirabilia Journal, n.20, 2015 Here can be found the first unabridged translation to Portuguese of one of the texts that is part of the group of sources known as The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, followed also by the first translation of the Nine Herbs Charm from the Lacnunga…
Teaching Genesis B in the British Literature Survey
TeachingGenesis B in the British Literature Survey Alison LangdonWestern Kentucky University
With almost a thousand years of literature to cover in a term, grappling with the sheer volume of material in a typical survey course can be a challenging prospect. Not only do instructors have to make judicious decisions about what to include, we also may struggle with creating a cohesive course…
Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis
Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social PraxisJohn D. Niles
College English 61 (1998): 143-66
