This groundbreaking reader of Old English prose and verse has been extensively revised for the second edition.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with

This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the d

Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book a