Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...

MIP: Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for another coffee break with MIP. Our guest today is Colin Ireland, Resident Director, Emeritus, of Arcadia University, and we'll be talking about ...

The Exeter Book is one of four surviving major poetic manuscripts in Old English A poetry book written in Old English has been granted Unesco status for its "outstanding significance" to British ...

Old English authors availed themselves of a limited number of stylistic and compositional devices when describing the Christian afterlife. The stylistic formula peer is, plus an indefinite number of ...

The Exeter Book, kept at Exeter Cathedral's library, is an anthology of poetry and riddles written in 970 AD. The book was the gift of Exeter's first bishop, Leofric, in the 11th Century and contains ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Scholars who have applied the "oral-formulaic" theory to Anglo-Saxon poetry have imported with the theory a notion that "oral tradition" ...

Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...