A History of Old English Literature (Electronic book text, 2nd Revised edition)

This revised edition of "A History of Old English Literature" draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chaptersDemonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates