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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Anglo-Saxon

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Critical editions
Encyclopedias and References
Manuscripts and Facsimiles
Publisher Series
Secondary Sources

Critical Editons

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (Translator)
Call Number: PE1583 .H43 2000

ISBN: 0374111197
Poems and Prose from the Old English by Burton Raffel (Translator); Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (Editor)
Call Number: PR1508 .P59 1998
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by Craig Williamson (Edited and Translated by); Tom Shippey (Foreword by)
Call Number: PR1583 .W55 2011
Anglo-Saxon Book of Verse and Prose by Walter J. Sedgefield
Call Number: PR1505 .S37 1973
Ælfric's prefaces by Jonathan Wilcox (Editor)
Call Number: PR1533 .A6 1994
Old English Shorter Poems by Christopher A. Jones (Edited and Translated by)
Call Number: PR1508 .O55 2012
The Battle of Maldon by D. G. Scragg (Editor)
Call Number: DA154.7 .B38 1991
Judith by Mark Griffith (Editor)
Call Number: PR1730 .G7 1997
The Dream of the Rood by Michael J. Swanton (Editor)
Call Number: PR1680 .S9 1996
Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose by Leslie A. Donovan
Call Number: BX4656 .W65 1999

Manuscripts and Facsimiles

Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile by Phillip Pulsiano (Editor)
Call Number: DA150 .A75 1994

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 by Bernard James Muir (Editor); Nick Kennedy (Software by)
Call Number: PR1603 .M85 2004
Parker Library on the web [electronic resource]
An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon.
The Nowell codex; British Museum Cotton Vitellius A. XV, second ms. by Kemp Malone (Editor)
Call Number: Z115.E5 E2 v.12

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref O'size

The Nowell codex contains five works: a fragment of an English life of St. Christopher, the Wonders of the East, Alexander's Letter to Aristotle, Beowulf, and Judith.
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, 900-1066 by Elżbieta Temple
Call Number: ND3128 .S8 vol. 2

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Publisher Series

Bibliographies

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972 by Stanley B. Greenfield; Fred C. Robinson
Call Number: Z2012 .G83
The Exeter Book: a bibliography by Bernard J. Muir (Editor)
Call Number: PR201 .M84 1992
Beowulf scholarship : an annotated bibliography, 1979-1990 by Robert J. Hasenfratz
Call Number: PR1585 .H37 1993

Encyclopedias and References

A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin (Editors)
Electronic Resource
A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature by Elaine Treharne (Editor); Phillip Pulsiano (Editor)
Call Number: PR173 .C66 2001
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature by Clare A. Lees (Editor)
Call Number: PR255 .C347 2013
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm R. Godden (Editor); Michael Lapidge (Editor)
Call Number: PR173 .C36 1991
A Companion to Medieval Poetry by Corinne Saunders (Editor)
Call Number: PR313 .C65 2010

Secondary Sources

The Mead-Hall: the feasting tradition in Anglo-Saxon England by Stephen Pollington
Call Number: DA152.2 .P65 2003
Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspective by Judith N. Garde
Call Number: PR203 .G37 1991
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature by Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Call Number: PR179.P35 K332 2001
Ritual and the Rood: liturgical images and the Old English poems of the Dream of the rood tradition by Eamonn O. Carragain
Call Number: PR1684 .O23 2005
Ruling Women: queenship and gender in Anglo-Saxon literature by Stacy S. Klein
Call Number: PR179.W65 K55 2006
Beowulf and the Dragon: parallels and analogues by Christine Rauer
Call Number: PR1587.D7 R38 2000
The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge
Call Number: Z791.E5 L37 2006
Holy men and holy women : Old English prose saints' lives and their contexts by Paul E. Szarmach
Call Number: PR226 .H65 1996
Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition by Helen Damico
Call Number: PR1587.W43 D3 1984
The Medieval Dragon: the nature of the beast in Germanic literature by Joyce T. Lionarons
Call Number: PN831 .L56 1998