Subject Guide ~ Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Best contemporary source for Anglo-Saxon history.

History of pre-Anglo Saxon Britain.

Second series. Useful for information about Old English saints, etc.

First series. Useful for information about Old English saints, etc.

Great CD-ROM.

Great starting-place for any topic (note the spelling of Encyclopaedia when you search in the catalogue).

Helpful book for several subjects. Sections include: "Nations and Kingdoms" "Society, Community, and Identity," "Conversion to Christianity," "The Art of Authority," "Latin and Vernacular Culture," and "Texts and Society."

Good essays on particular aspects of Anglo-Saxon history, plus essays on special approaches to history: anthropology, art history, archaeology, economics, geography and geology, place-names, and topography.

Great starting-place for any topic (note the spelling of Encyclopaedia when you search in the catalogue).

Alfred, Athelstan, Eric Bloodaxe, the Battle of Brunanburh, etc. - an engagingly written history.

Covers sixty bloody years of English history; great on Aethelred the Unready and Cnut, as well as on the general cultural context.

Helpful book for several subjects. Sections include: "Nations and Kingdoms" "Society, Community, and Identity," "Conversion to Christianity," "The Art of Authority," "Latin and Vernacular Culture," and "Texts and Society."

Covers all aspects of OE literature: biblical, legal, scientific, saints' lives, devotional, scholastic, heroic, wisdom literature, etc.

Interesting, recent introduction; structured thematically, with chapters on the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

Extensive coverage of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature, its production, authorship, audience, and reception

Helpful essays on many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture: "A-S society and its literature," "the OE language," "OE verse," "OE Prose," "Germanic legend in OE lit," "Heroic values and Christian ethics," "Pagan susvivals and popular beliefs," "Beowulf," "Fatalism and the millenium," "Perceptions of transience," "Perceptions of eternity," "Biblical literature," "The saintly life in A-S England," "The world of A-S learning,"

Great essays on everything from “The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England” and “English Identity Before the Conquest” to Caedmon’s hymn and several other specific literary works.

Chapter on “Ælfric and the Production of English Identity."

Good chapters on the Old English legend of St. Christopher as a dog-headed man, and on the Old English “Wonders of the East,” which depicts the monstrous people at the edges of the world.

Useful if you're researching the pre-Christian religions of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.

Contains one essay on Anglo-Saxon England.

Great starting-place for any topic (note the spelling of Encyclopaedia when you search in the catalogue).

Helpful book for several subjects. Sections include: "Nations and Kingdoms" "Society, Community, and Identity," "Conversion to Christianity," "The Art of Authority," "Latin and Vernacular Culture," and "Texts and Society."

Modern successor to Cockayne's edition.

The most up-to-date overview.

Translates the three main medical texts that have survived from Anglo-Saxon England.

A bit dated, but interesting.