A History of Old English Literature

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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 studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chaptersDemonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debatesContent: Chapter none Introduction (pages 1–41): Chapter 1 The Chronology and Varieties of Old English Literature (pages 42–57): Chapter 2 Anglo?Saxon Manuscripts (pages 58–82): Chapter 3 Literature of the Alfredian Period (pages 83–111): Chapter 4 Homilies (pages 112–132): Chapter 5 Saints’ Legends (pages 133–156): Rachel S. AndersonChapter 6 Biblical Literature (pages 157–176): Chapter 7 Liturgical and Devotional Texts (pages 177–210): Chapter 8 Legal Texts (pages 211–226): Chapter 9 Scientific and Scholastic Texts (pages 227–240): Chapter 10 Wisdom Literature and Lyric Poetry (pages 241–277): Chapter 11 Germanic Legend and Heroic Lay (pages 278–328): Chapter 12 Additions, Annotations, and Marginalia (pages 329–353):