Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of "Introduction to Old English" confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time.A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old Eng[...]

This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order but ra[...]