A History of Old English Literature

<p>This revised edition of <i>A History of Old English Literature</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li>This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies</li> <li>Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings</li> <li>Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts</li> <li>Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters</li> <li>Demonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates</li> </ul>