Old and Middle English C. 890-C. 1450 : An Anthology
ISBN: 9781405181204 | 1405181206
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 9/28/2009
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Building on the success of the first two editions of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (2000, 2004), Old and Middle English c.890-c.1400: An Anthology is a valuable seminar resource. Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology of literary texts ranges from the earliest writings in English up to the time of Chaucer. It encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in the high Middle Ages.The texts are arranged by date of manuscript, foregrounding issues of ... MORE
| Alphabetical List of Authors and Works | |
| Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition | |
| Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition | |
| Preface and Acknowledgements to the Third Edition | |
| Chronology of Events and Literary Landmarks | |
| Introduction | |
| Bedes Ecclesiastical History: | |
| Cædmons Hymn | |
| The Settlement of the Angles, Saxons ... MORE | |
| The Life of Cædmon | |
| Alfred: | |
| Preface to the Translation of Gregorys Pastoral Care | |
| Translation of Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophy | |
| The Accounts of the Journeys of Ohthere and Wulfstan | |
| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: | |
| Annal 755: Cynewulf and Cynheard | |
| Annals 855-78: The Death of Edmund, Alfreds Battles with the Vikings | |
| The Reign of Æðelstan and The Battle of Brunanburh | |
| The Exeter Book: | |
| Advent Lyrics VII and VIII | |
| The Wanderer | |
| The Seafarer | |
| The Whale | |
| Deor | |
| Wulf and Eadwacer | |
| Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12, 26, 29, 30, 43-6, 55 | |
| The Wifes Lament | |
| The Husbands Message | |
| The Ruin | |
| The Vercelli Book: | |
| The Fates of the Apostles | |
| Vercelli Homily X | |
| The Dream of the Rood | |
| Ælfric: | |
| Old English Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies | |
| Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents | |
| Old English Preface to his Lives of Saints | |
| Passion of Saint Edmund | |
| The Battle of Maldon | |
| The Beowulf-Manuscript: | |
| The Wonders of the East | |
| Beowulf | |
| Judith | |
| The Junius Manuscript: | |
| Exodus | |
| Wulfstans Sermo Lupi ad Anglos | |
| King Cnuts Letter to the English of 1020 | |
| Apollonius of Tyre | |
| The Peterborough Chronicle | |
| The Life of Saint Margaret | |
| The Hymns of Saint Godric | |
| The Orrmulum | |
| Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14.52: | |
| Poema Morale | |
| Trinity Homily 33 | |
| Worcester Cathedral Library, F. 174: | |
| The First Worcester Fragment | |
| Hali Meiðhad | |
| Ancrene Wisse | |
| Sumer is Icumen In | |
| Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86: | |
| Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount? | |
| Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode | |
| The Fox and the Wolf | |
| Dame Siriþ | |
| Love is Sofft | |
| Arundel 292: The Bestiary | |
| Oxford, Jesus College 29: | |
| The Love-Ron of Friar Thomas Hales | |
| The Proverbs of Alfred | |
| London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. ix: | |
| La3amons Brut | |
| The Owl and the Nightingale | |
| Lyrics from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 39 | |
| Trinity Lyrics: of One That Is So Fair and Bright | |
| When I Think on Domesday | |
| When the Turf is Thy Tower | |
| A Saying of Saint Bernard | |
| I Sing of One That Is Matchless | |
| An Orison to Our Lady | |
| The South English Legendary: | |
| The Life of Saint Wulfstan | |
| Cursor Mundi | |
| Robert Mannyng of Brunne: | |
| The Chronicle | |
| Handlyng Synne | |
| The Land of Cockayne | |
| The Auchinleck Manuscript: | |
| Sir Orfeo | |
| The Four Foes of Mankind | |
| London, British Library, Harley 2253: | |
| Earth upon Earth | |
| Alysoun | |
| Spring | |
| Advice to Women | |
| An Old Mans Prayer | |
| Blow, Northerne Wynd | |
| The Death of King Edward I | |
| I Syke when Y Singe | |
| An Autumn Song | |
| King Horn | |
| The Ayenbite of Inwit | |
| Richard Rolle: | |
| Ego Dormio | |
| Ghostly Gladness | |
| King Alisaunder | |
| Ywain and Gawain | |
| Athelston | |
| Wynnere and Wastoure | |
| William Langland: | |
| Piers Plowman | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer: | |
| The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue | |
| The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
| Julian of Norwich: | |
| A Vision | |
| The Book of Margery Kempe | |
| Select Bibliography | |
| Glossary of Common Hard Words | |
| Index of Manuscripts | |
| General Index | |
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Elaine Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She has published extensively on Old and Middle English literature, and focuses particularly on medieval manuscripts and their contexts of production. She is a General Editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives Series, Editor of Essays and Studies, Medieval Editor for Review of English Studies, and a former Chair and President of the English Association. She is the founding convenor of the English Association Special Interest Group in the History of Books and Texts.
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