This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls figures from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.







An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.

Structured around figures from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.

Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors.

Combines close textual analysis with historical context.

Based on the author s many years experience of teaching Old English literature.

The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).