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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert D. Fulk (Indiana University, USA) , Christopher M. Cain (Towson University, USA)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.780kg ISBN: 9781118453230ISBN 10: 1118453239 Pages: 504 Publication Date: 26 April 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of IIIustrations vi Preface to the First Edition (2003) vii Preface to the Second Edition ix Abbreviations x Introduction Anglo-Saxon England and Its Literature: A Social History 1 1 The Chronology and Varieties of Old English Literature 42 2 Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 58 3 Literature of the Alfredian Period 83 4 Homilies 112 5 Saints’ Legends (Rachel S. Anderson) 133 6 Biblical Literature 157 7 Liturgical and Devotional Texts 177 8 Legal Texts 211 9 Scientific and Scholastic Texts 227 10 Wisdom Literature and Lyric Poetry 241 11 Germanic Legend and Heroic Lay 278 12 Additions, Annotations, and Marginalia 329 Conclusion Making Old English New: Anglo-Saxonism and the Cultural Work of Old English Literature 354 Works Cited 367 Index 481Reviews<p> 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) Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. (Choice , 1 December2013) Author InformationThe Authors 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, Volume 2: Morphology (2011), Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (4th 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, The 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 S. Anderson is Associate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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