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Overview

This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

  • Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo-Saxon culture.
  • Responds to renewed emphasis on historical and cultural contexts in the field of medieval studies.
  • Treats virtually the entire range of textual types preserved in Old English.
  • Considers the production, reception and uses of Old English texts.
  • Integrates the Anglo-Latin backgrounds crucial to understanding Old English literature.
  • Offers very extensive bibliographical guidance.
  • Demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates.
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“Now the oldest English texts have a literary history for the twenty-first century. One of the chief virtues of A History of Old English Literature is the rich elaboration of contexts, extending from the manuscripts to the literary and intellectual world of Anglo-Saxon England, to the early modern criticism, and to the most recent critical reception.”

Professor Daniel Donoghue, HarvardUniversity

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780631223979
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/11/2002
  • Series: Blackwell History of Literature Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 358
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

R. D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the editor of Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology (1991), author of A History of Old English Meter (1992), co-editor of Eight Old English Poems (third edition, 2001), and co-editor of the fourth edition of F. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (forthcoming).

Christopher M. Cain is Assistant Professor of English at Towson University, Maryland.

Rachel S. Anderson is an Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chronological Table
1 Perspectives 1
What has Survived 1
Songs and Scribes 4
The End of Heathenism 6
The Languages of Britain 9
2 England 449-1066: A Sketch 17
Old English 19
Conquest 21
Conversion 22
Sutton Hoo and Warrior Society 26
Conversion and Accommodation 31
Bede's Northumbria 35
Theodore and a Learned Church 41
Wessex 46
The Benedictine Revival 47
3 Heroic Poetry Including Beowulf 51
The Heroic Ethos 51
Germanic Heroic Poetry 56
Versification 62
Poetic Diction 63
Formulaic Composition 65
The Uses of Poetry 70
Beowulf 76
4 The World's Wonder: Riddles 91
Riddles 96
Verse Wisdom 108
5 Bede and Caedmon 115
The Ecclesiastical History 120
Caedmon 126
6 The Poetic Elegies 139
Wanderer and Seafarer 140
Other Elegies 155
7 Alfred and Old English Prose 165
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 172
Books Most Needful 180
8 Verse of the Christian Establishment 193
Saints' Lives: Andreas 198
Elene 203
Christ 208
The Dream of the Road 216
9 The Benedictine Revival 229
Aelfric's Colloquy 237
Aelfric's Homilies 245
Wulfstan 252
Verse of the Tenth Century 255
The Battle of Maldon 263
10 Afterwards 273
Old and Middle 274
Late Prose 279
App A Note on Deor 285
Notes on the Plates 287
Bibliography and Further Reading 293
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