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The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) (2019/2020) 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons View Online (ENGL3015) (Q33221) (2019/2020) 298 items §1 Old English Language: Dictionaries, Grammar, Concordance (6 items) An Anglo-Saxon dictionary: based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth - Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, 1882 Book An Anglo-Saxon dictionary: based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth - A. Campbell, Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, 1972 Book | [still invaluable, but rather awkward to use] A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary - John Richard Clark Hall, Herbert Dean Meritt, 1966 Book | [excellent; paperback edition available] DOE: Dictionary of Old English Webpage | [only fascicles A–G available so far] Old English grammar - A. Campbell, 1959 Book | [very advanced] Guide to Old English - Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, 2011 Book | [the grammar section has remained pretty constant in the eight eds, though the texts included have been augmented] §2 Historical and Cultural Background (12 items) The Anglo-Saxon age: a very short introduction - John Blair, 2000 Book Anglo-Saxon Christianity: exploring the earliest roots of Christian spirituality in England - Paul Cavill, 1999 Book The Age of Bede - David Hugh Farmer, J. F. Webb, 1998 Book Anglo-Saxonism and the construction of social identity - Allen J. Frantzen, John D. Niles, c1997 Book 1/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham The framework of Anglo-Saxon history to A.D. 900 - Kenneth Harrison, 1976 Book An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England - Peter Hunter Blair, c2003 Book Northumbria in the days of Bede - Peter Hunter Blair, 1976 Book The world of Bede - Peter Hunter Blair, 1990 Book The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England - Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, D. G. Scragg, 2014 Book The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England - Henry Mayr-Harting, 1991 Book A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature - Phillip Pulsiano, Elaine M. Treharne, 2001 Book Anglo-Saxon England - F. M. Stenton, 1971 Book §3 Women [History and general discussion: see also in literature below] (14 items) Medieval women - Derek Baker, Rosalind M. T. Hill, Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978 Book The English Chroniclers' Attitude Toward Women - Betty Bandel, 1955-01 Article Virginitas: an essay in the history of a medieval ideal - John Bugge, 1975 Book Women in Anglo-Saxon England - Christine E. Fell, Cecily Clark, Elizabeth Williams, 1984 Book Marriage in Seventh-Century England - R. Hill Chapter The women of England: from Anglo-Saxon times to the present : interpretive bibliographical essays - Barbara Kanner, 1980 Book Women of the medieval world: essays in honor of John H. Mundy - John Hine Mundy, Julius Kirshner, Suzanne Fonay Wemple, 1985 Book 2/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham Anglo-Saxon Women and the Law - A.L Klinck, 1982 Article Women in the Middle Ages: religion, marriage and letters - Angela M. Lucas, c1983 Book Revue bénédictine - Joseph Marie Louis Victor van Caloen, Abbaye de Maredsous Journal Medieval women - Eileen Power, M. M. Postan, 1997 Book Medieval English nunneries, c.1275 to 1535 - Eileen Power, 1922 Book The English woman in history - Doris Mary Parsons Stenton, 1957 Book [See also Lapidge and Herren (1979), next section, for Aldhelm's tract 'On Virginity'] §4 Sources in translation [from Latin or Old English] (10 items) Anglo-Saxon poetry - S. A. J. Bradley, 1995 Book Select translations from Old English poetry - Albert S. Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 2005 Book The Anglo-Saxon world - Kevin Crossley-Holland, c2002 Book | [excellent selection of prose and verse] A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse - R. F. S. Hamer, 2015 Book | [with parallel OE text, but the translations should be treated with caution] Select English historical documents of the ninth and tenth centuries - Florence E. Harmer, 1914 Book Early English Christian poetry - Charles W. Kennedy, 1952 Book The prose works - Michael Lapidge, Michael W. Herren, Aldhelm, 1979 Book A history of the English church and people - Leo Sherley-Price, R. E. Latham, Bede, 1968 Book Anglo-Saxon prose - Michael James Swanton, 1993 Book 3/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham English historical documents - David Charles Douglas, Dorothy Whitelock, 1953-2011 Book §5 Old English Literature (62 items) [a] Overviews (7 items) Old English literature - Michael Alexander, 1983 Book Late Old English Literature - P.A.M Clemoes Chapter A New critical history of Old English Literature - Stanley B. Greenfield, Daniel Gillmore Calder, Michael Lapidge, 1986 Book The interpretation of Old English poems - Stanley B. Greenfield, 1972 Book The Cambridge introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature - Hugh Magennis, 2011 Book Old English verse - T. A. Shippey, 1972 Book A study of Old English literature - C. L. Wrenn, 1967 Book [b] Collections of essays (14 items) Companion to Old English poetry - Henk Aertsen, Rolf H. Bremmer, 1994 Book Essential articles for the study of Old English poetry - Jess B. Bessinger, Stanley J. Kahrl, 1968 Book Old English studies in honour of John C. Pope - 1974 Book Old English poetry: essays on style - Daniel Gillmore Calder, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of English, c1979 Book Old English poetry: fifteen essays - Robert Payson Creed, 1967 Book 4/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham The Cambridge companion to Old English literature - Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge, 2013 Book Studies in Old English literature in honor of Arthur G. Brodeur - Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Stanley B. Greenfield, 1963 Book Old English Literature : Critical Essays - R.M Liuzza, 2002 Book Anglo-Saxon poetry: essays in appreciation : for John C. McGalliard - Lewis E. Nicholson, Dolores Warwick Frese, John Calvin McGalliard, c1975 Book Old English literature in context: ten essays - John D. Niles, 1980 Book Reading Old English texts - Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, 1997 Book Old English shorter poems - k. O'Brien O'Keeffe, 1994 Book A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature - Phillip Pulsiano, Elaine M. Treharne, 2001 Book Continuations and beginnings: studies in Old English literature - Eric Gerald Stanley, 1966 Book [c] The Heroic (6 items) The lords of battle: image and reality of the comitatus in Dark-Age Britain - Stephen S. Evans, 1997 Book Anglo-Saxon Heroic Attitudes - G.N Garmonsway Chapter Kings, beasts and heroes - Gwyn Jones, 1972 Book The Germanic invasions: the making of Europe, AD 400-600 - Lucien Musset, 1975 Book The heroic age of Scandinavia - Gabriel Turville-Petre, 1951 Book The barbarian West, 400-1000 - J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1996 Book 5/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham [d] Christian and Pagan (17 items) The Christian tradition in Anglo-Saxon England: approaches to current scholarship and teaching - Paul Cavill, 2004 Book Rhythm and cosmic order in old English Christian literature: an inaugural lecture - Peter Clemoes, 1970 Book Gods and myths of Northern Europe - Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, 1990 Book Satan unbound: the Devil in Old English narrative literature - Peter Dendle, c2001 Book Apocalypse and Invasion in Late Anglo-Saxon England - M. Godden Chapter Pagans and Christians: the interplay between Christian Latin and traditional Germanic cultures in early medieval Europe : proceedings of the Second Germania Latina Conference held at the University of Groningen, May 1992 - Tette Hofstra, L. A. J. R. Houwen, A. A. MacDonald, Germania Latina Conference, 1995 Book Visions of the end: apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages - Bernard McGinn, 1998], c1979 Book Heathen gods in Old English literature - Richard North, 1997 Book Heroic Values and Christian Ethics - K. O'Brien O'Keeffe Chapter Biblical Literature: the New Testament - Barbara C Raw Chapter Anglo-Saxon crucifixion iconography and the art of the monastic revival - Barbara Catherine Raw, 1990 Book The Devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity - Jeffrey Burton Russell, 1977 Book Imagining the Anglo-Saxon past - Eric Gerald Stanley, 2000 Book Millennium: Apocalypse and Antichrist and Old English monsters c. 1000 A.D - Zacharias P. Thundy, 1998 6/22 09/30/21 The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (ENGL3015) (Q33221) | University of Nottingham Book Heaven and Fallen Angels in Old English - C.B Tkacz Chapter Stock Descriptions of Heaven and Hell in Old English Prose and Poetry - H.L.C Tristram, 1978 Article Myth and religion of the North: the religion of ancient Scandinavia - Gabriel Turville-Petre, c1964 Book [e] Women (5 items) Woman in Old English Poetry - Richard Burton, 1895 Article Woman as hero in Old English literature - Jane Chance, 1986 Book The cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England - Mary Clayton, 1990 Book New readings on women in Old English literature - Helen Damico, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, 1990 Book Women in Early English Literature: Beowulf to Ancrene Wisse - B.W Kliman, 1977 Article §6 Collected Editions of Old English Poems (13 items) Old Testament narratives - Daniel Anlezark, c2011 Book | [includes Genesis B text and translation] Old English shorter poems - Christopher A. Jones, Robert E. Bjork, 2012-2014 Book | [text and translation]
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