This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a
radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one …

Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled
exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines …

A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been
significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in …

A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature. To the cultures
of medieval northwestern Europe, the changing of the seasons was a material and …

The ruined-city motif in the Old English poem The Wanderer (lines 73–87) has long been
read as a reflex of traditional Germanic diction, and as a symbol of material transience. In …

This thesis investigates the character and role of non-Christian belief in medieval societies,
and how we can reconstruct it using written sources. It focuses on Anglo-Saxon culture …

“I became a historian,” Gary Dickson told me when I met him at a dinner of the Late Antique
and Early Medieval Postgraduate Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh,“because I …

Decades of analysis of The Wife's Lament based on a presumed, underlying narrative have
produced interpretations that are contradictory and competing. As a lyric poem, The Wife's …

This thesis examines the interaction between human and nonhuman from an ecologically
oriented perspective. It reads Anglo-Saxon poetic texts, particularly the Anglo-Latin and …

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the
seasons in medieval England—now in paperback. Winters in the World is a beautifully …