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[...]
Gathering some of the most important studies from the past 25 years of "Beowulf" scholarship, "The Beowulf Reader" offers essential insights both to scholars in the field and to readers coming to this Old English literary masterpiece for the first time. The carefully selected essays in this volume r[...]
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[...]