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Truth Is Trickiest
The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles
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$95.00
ISBN: 9781487552527
Pub Date: May 2024
Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers.
Humour in Old English Literature
Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545307
Pub Date: October 2023
This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the heroic, the hagiographic, and more.
Beowulf as Children’s Literature
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487502706
Pub Date: December 2021
Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.
Angles on a Kingdom
East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric
Price:
$89.00
ISBN: 9781487505738
Pub Date: July 2021
Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry
The Book and the Poem in Junius 11
Price:
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507466
Pub Date: November 2020
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry proposes new ways of engaging with a well-known text and serves as a fascinating case study for reading in early medieval England.
Say What I Am Called
The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525484
Pub Date: November 2019
A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
Verbal Encounters
Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525491
Pub Date: October 2019
The essays in Verbal Encounters are not merely a fitting tribute to Roberta Frank, but also strong contributions to current scholarship on medieval literature and culture.
Families of the King
Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487506773
Pub Date: March 2019
In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.
A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Price:
$21.95
ISBN: 9781442651869
Pub Date: September 2018
The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England
Price:
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487503055
Pub Date: June 2018
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.
Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Price:
$106.00
ISBN: 9781487502027
Pub Date: April 2018
After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.
Compelling God
Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
Price:
$101.00
ISBN: 9781487501983
Pub Date: March 2018
In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.
Undoing Babel
The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Price:
$82.00
ISBN: 9781487500542
Pub Date: February 2018
Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Divina in Laude Voluntas
Price:
$103.00
ISBN: 9780802098535
Pub Date: June 2017
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.
England in Europe
English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000–c.1150
Price:
$113.00
ISBN: 9781442640726
Pub Date: April 2017
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.
Inhabited Spaces
Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place
Price:
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487500658
Pub Date: January 2017
In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.
Truth Is Trickiest
The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487552527
Pub Date: May 2024
Humour in Old English Literature
Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545307
Pub Date: October 2023
This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the heroic, the hagiographic, and more.
Beowulf as Children’s Literature
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487502706
Pub Date: December 2021
Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.
Angles on a Kingdom
East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric
$89.00
ISBN: 9781487505738
Pub Date: July 2021
Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry
The Book and the Poem in Junius 11
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507466
Pub Date: November 2020
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry proposes new ways of engaging with a well-known text and serves as a fascinating case study for reading in early medieval England.
Say What I Am Called
The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525484
Pub Date: November 2019
A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
Verbal Encounters
Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525491
Pub Date: October 2019
The essays in Verbal Encounters are not merely a fitting tribute to Roberta Frank, but also strong contributions to current scholarship on medieval literature and culture.
Families of the King
Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487506773
Pub Date: March 2019
In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.
A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
$21.95
ISBN: 9781442651869
Pub Date: September 2018
The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487503055
Pub Date: June 2018
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.
Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
$106.00
ISBN: 9781487502027
Pub Date: April 2018
After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.
Compelling God
Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
$101.00
ISBN: 9781487501983
Pub Date: March 2018
In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.
Undoing Babel
The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
$82.00
ISBN: 9781487500542
Pub Date: February 2018
Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Divina in Laude Voluntas
$103.00
ISBN: 9780802098535
Pub Date: June 2017
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.
England in Europe
English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000–c.1150
$113.00
ISBN: 9781442640726
Pub Date: April 2017
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.
Inhabited Spaces
Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487500658
Pub Date: January 2017
In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.