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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 studies Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters Demonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates

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A new generation of students and their professors will undoubtedly apprecite the currency of what has proven to be a widely respected, comprehensive historical treatment of Old English literature. (Choice, 1 December 2013)

"""A new generation of students and their professors will undoubtedly apprecite the currency of what has proven to be a widely respected, comprehensive historical treatment of Old English literature."" (Choice, 1 December 2013)"

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R. D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of, among others, The Beowulf Manuscript (2010) and An Introduction to Middle English (2012) and co-author or editor of Eight Old English Poems (2001), A Grammar of Old English, Vol. 2: Morphology (2011), Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg ( 4 th edition, 2008), and The Old English Canons of Theodore (2012). Christopher M. Cain is an associate professor of English at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. He has published on Old English and Anglo-Latin in Studies in Philology , JEGP , Review of English Studies , and Philological Quarterly , among others. He is the co-editor (with Geoffrey Russom) of Studies in the History of the English Language III--Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (2007) and is a contributor to The Year's Work in Old English Studies . Rachel Anderson ,isAssociate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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