A collection of twelve wide-ranging papers on the language, religious texts and literature of early Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England. The essays, all richly furnished with ...

A collection of nineteen essays old and new on a number of themes - class relations in medieval society, the ethos of cities, the cultural significance of clothes, for example ...

Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon verse. And this ...

A general chapter on the social and cultural contexts of the Shorter Poems is followed by a guide to the main genre which they exemplify - the love-vision form. The volume then ...

"This volume celebrates friendship, communication, performance, translation, inlfluence and transmission, as they apply not only to the academic study of Italian culture, but ...

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years. Contents as follows: David ...