Product Description: The book explores the identity and context of the Scyld and Scef characters in Anglo-Saxon mythology. Its focus on heroic forerunners to Beowulf offers a fuller appreciation not just of that later myth but also of the medieval Germanic world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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'Medieval England is a topic that has perennial fascination: King Arthur, Robin Hood, chivalry, and Beowulf seem to have obtained a permanent place in high-school reading lists and the popular imagination. Spanning the 5th through the 15th century, this encyclopedia covers broad topics such as music, women, and language, as well as specific topics such as people, famous buildings, printing, monastic orders, prostitution, and stained glass. There are helpful charts of the kings and queens of England, archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the popes. Black-and-white illustrations abound, and each entry contains a bibliography for further research.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.' (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Textual criticism is a topical subject and the twenty essays in this book offer a wide spectrum of views on the past, present and future of editing Old English. Texts covered include items of literary and historical prose and poetry, both within the traditional canon and outside it...read more