Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World collects together in 18 previously out-of-print volumes some key texts in the study of the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the early beginnings of England. Books cover the art, literature, and poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, as well as their politics, religion and culture, and their contacts with other peoples such as the Vikings and Celts.
By T.D. Kendrick
August 10, 2023
Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1972) was the first account to be written of art in England in the period of Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon styles. Famous illuminated manuscripts, the best of the sculptured stone crosses, and many splendid pieces early metalwork are examined in this ...
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By R.H.M. Dolley
August 10, 2023
Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era. It examines the coins of the end of Roman Britain and those of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, as well as those of the Vikings, Ireland and Wales....
By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
August 10, 2023
Anglo-Saxon England (1979) takes the history and archaeology of Britain from the fifth century AD through to 1066, covering perhaps the most enigmatic period in British history, when post-Roman, native British and Continental influences amalgamated, in a manner often difficult to unravel. Drawing ...
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By Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 10, 2023
Beowulf and Judith (1953) contains an extensive introduction to the texts of Beowulf and Judith, the full texts of the poems themselves, and comprehensive notes to the texts....
By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
August 10, 2023
Celtic Britain (1979) traces the history of the Celts and Celtic culture from the arrival of the first scattered groups of settlers in Britain in the seventh century BC to the development of the kingdoms of medieval Scotland and Wales. Although a Celtic culture continued to flourish independently ...
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By Dr. Henry Sweet
August 10, 2023
King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century....
By T.D. Kendrick
August 10, 2023
Late Saxon and Viking Art (1949) is a lavishly-illustrated examination of the art of the Saxon era – the carvings, sculpture, illustrations, drawings and paintings that emerged from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking cultures....
By T.A. Shippey
August 10, 2023
Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden; the ‘elegies’, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible stories and the lives of the saints which mark the end of pagan influence and the beginning of Christian inspiration; ...
By Various
August 10, 2023
Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World collects together in 18 previously out-of-print volumes some key texts in the study of the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the early beginnings of England. Books cover the art, literature, and poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, as well as their politics, ...
Edited
By Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 10, 2023
The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less so. Each verse text is accompanied by an ...
By Charles W. Kennedy
August 10, 2023
The Caedmon Poems (1916) contains the texts of Caedmon’s poems, the birth of Christian poetry in England. The poems are reproduced in a modern English translation, with an extensive introduction to each....
By Charles W. Kennedy
August 10, 2023
The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse composed in England from the seventh century to the Norman Conquest. It is a studied reappraisal of Old English verse by the light of modern critical scholarship....