Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world t…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Description -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 About this Book -- 1.2 English and Its Origins -- 1.3 External History -- 1.4 Internal History -- 1.5 Introducing English Historical L…
Argues that Anglo-Saxon authors recognized the Ascension and its theology as fundamentally liminal in nature, as principally concerned with crossing boundaries and inhabiting dual states and places.
A Guide to Old English is now the standard and most popular introduction to Old English language and literature. The fifth edition has been revised and corrected to take into account suggestions from teachers and students. The two most important new features are a substantial in…
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
