"In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis o…
A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places: they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach to Old En…
"The form and style of Old English poetry, which remained highly stable from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, confront the modern reader with several very basic critical challenges. Its deep conventionality is at odds with modern aesthetic values and notions of authorship. M…
A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style.