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A History of Old English Literature

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This introduction responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies, focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. It covers a wide range of genres, from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, without neglecting such mainstays of Old English studies as lyric poetry and heroic legend. Into this coverage it also integrates discussion of Anglo-Latin texts which are crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This new edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship of the past decade and adds new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts, while expanding coverage in the remaining chapters. It concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.