Filter By
Books (25)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling... -
The Poetic Art of Aldhelm by Andy Orchard 9780521034579
Booksplease Price: $55.91Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as 'the first English man of letters'. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin metrical verse, and his Latin works were amongst the... -
The Poetic Art of Aldhelm by Andy Orchard 9780521450904
Booksplease Price: $122.30Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as 'the first English man of letters'. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin metrical verse, and his Latin works were amongst the... -
A Critical Companion to Beowulf by Andy Orchard 9781843840299
Booksplease Price: $50.09A generous, energetic, engaging work... will be important to Beowulf study for years to come. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Beowulf is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from... -
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore by Andy Orchard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.86Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the... -
The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.41What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of... -
A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $58.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024774Author Andy OrchardFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint -
Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript by Andy Orchard 9780802085832
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $41.34Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed... -
If Only....: Jayjay and the Candy Orchard by N Mhlanga 9781728392028
Booksplease Price: $16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728392028Author N MhlangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and... -
Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literatu - A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by Leo Carruthers 9780859914154
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Studies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot. Andre Crepin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and... -
Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People by Samantha Zacher 9781441185600
Booksplease Price: $39.82The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this... -
The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15A detailed and passionate argument suggesting that Beowulf originated in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia. Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic... -
New Readings in the Vercelli Book by Samantha Zacher 9780802098696
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $77.05The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's... -
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography - Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey by Maren Clegg Hyer
Booksplease Price: $141.04Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly. Dedicated to honoring the remarkable achievements of Dr Antonette di Paolo Healey, the... -
Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature by Sachi Shimomura 9781403972040
Booksplease Price: $62.44This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession... -
The Dating of Beowulf - A Reassessment by Leonard Neidorf
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone, and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that... -
The Dating of Beowulf - A Reassessment by Leonard Neidorf 9781843844495
Booksplease Price: $35.86WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone, and... -
The King's Body: Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Nicole Marafioti 9781442647589
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $54.88The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using... -
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England: Divina in Laude Voluntas by Patrick McBrine 9780802098535
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.97Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and... -
The Anglo-Saxon Library by Professor Michael Lapidge 9780199239696
Booksplease Price: $106.84The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of... -
A Social History of England, 900-1200 by Julia Crick 9780521713238
Booksplease Price: $51.21The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic... -
A Social History of England, 900-1200 by Julia Crick
Booksplease Price: $137.42The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic... -
A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons by Henrietta Leyser 9781780765990
Booksplease Price: $143.64'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the "Battle of Maldon", an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking... -
Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England by Mark C. Amodio
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.38Mark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living...