Provides an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. This volume provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives.

Provides an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. This volume provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives.