Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World collects together in 18 previously out-of-print volumes some key texts in the study of the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the early beginnings of England. Books cover the art, literature, and poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, as well as their politics, religion and culture, and their contacts with other peoples such as the Vikings and Celts.
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By George Philip Krapp, Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 10, 2023
The Exeter Book (1936) contains the texts of the Exeter Book, the largest of the great miscellanies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, together with an extensive introduction and notes....
By Stanley B. Greenfield
August 10, 2023
The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a ...
By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
August 10, 2023
The Origins of Britain (1980) follows the path of man’s occupation of Britain from the scattered pockets of habitation in the earliest Palaeolithic period through to his growing domination of the landscape and his capacity to mould his environment evident in the late Bronze Age. Among the many ...
By Martyn J. Whittock
August 10, 2023
The Origins of England (1986) gives a comprehensive overview of the crucial period of migration and settlement that can be seen as the beginning of English history. It takes into account recent discoveries and debates on the origins of the English, their arrival and conquest of England, and the ...
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By George Philip Krapp
August 10, 2023
The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius (1932) contains the texts and comprehensive notes on the Paris Psalter (the most extensive collection of Anglo-Saxon metrical translations of the Psalms) and the Meters of Boethius (the surviving Anglo-Saxon versions of De Consolatione Philosophiae of ...
By A.F. Scott
August 10, 2023
The Saxon Age (1979) presents a vivid portrait of the daily life of Saxon England. Using the first hand evidence of contemporary writers, artists and craftsmen, the book conveys the mood and style of the Saxons from the royal court to a peasant’s hut. A wealth of information is offered, extending ...
By H.R. Ellis Davidson
August 10, 2023
The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such ...