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Anglo-Saxon Studies offers the best scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon peoples in the period from the end of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, including comparative studies involving adjacent populations and periods; both new research and major re-assessments of central topics are welcomed. Books in the series may be based in any one of the principal disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, language and literature, and inter- or multi-disciplinary studies are encouraged.

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44 results in Anglo-Saxon Studies

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Cultural Connections between the Continent and Early Medieval England
  • Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
  • Edited by Thijs Porck, Kees Dekker, László Sándor Chardonnens
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Essays exploring the literary, material, scholarly and linguistic ties between the Continent and early medieval England.

    "Anglo-Saxons were tied to the Continent in many ways", Rolf H. Bremmer Jr once observed. Throughout the early Middle Ages, a crucial phase for Anglo-Continental contact, cultural connections between the English and their neighbours across the North Sea developed in a number of forms, from missionary activities to political contacts, intellectual exchanges and military confrontations, with people, books, texts, artefacts and ideas travelling back and forth. The language and culture of the Anglo-Saxons became once again part of the scholarly exchange between England and the Continent during the early modern period, when philologists from either side of the North Sea laboured on the recovery of Old English and made new connections between Old English, the other Old Germanic languages, and more distant tongues.

    This volume investigates these dynamic interactions between Anglo-Saxons and the Continent. Contributors break new ground in shared traditions in runic writing, legal ideas in England and Frisia, moments of transcultural and translingual contact, the influence of continental texts in early medieval England, the manuscripts which provide unique glimpses of the dissemination of texts and ideas, and early modern attempts to apply Old English to novel purposes. They thus form an appropriate tribute to the inspirational scholarship of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr in the field of Old English philology.

Constructing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
  • Daniel Anlezark
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Offers insights into sources and inspirations, authorship and authorial style, and patterns of separation and convergence across versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important documents to survive from early medieval England. Written in Old English, it was first created during the reign of King Alfred the Great (871-899). Up to Alfred's reign, and then in multiple continuations extending into the twelfth century, the Chronicle versions often provide a unique record of events, at times reported in the barest style, at others with passionate commentary.

    This book is the first to tell the story of how the Chronicles came to be, providing a clear but detailed account of the development of its various versions. It starts with an examination of the textual and manuscript evidence, then explores the work of the two chroniclers first responsible for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's creation in the late ninth century, arguing that the first made a set of annals from disparate sources. The author then contends that a later reviser aligned with the Alfredian political programme wrote the annals for Alfred's reign, and at the same time also revised earlier entries, including the famous story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard. This book also sheds new light on the annals of Æthelred the Unready, arguing that Archbishop Wulfstan of York is likely to have authored some of these, together with some tenth-century annals. Its final chapter provides the first comprehensive study of all the Chronicles' poetry.

The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus
  • Amy Faulkner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 June 2023
    Print publication:
    24 January 2023
  • A new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian principles of use and enjoyment to uncover how these works explore the material world.

Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England
  • Edited by Andrew Rabin, Anya Adair
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 June 2023
    Print publication:
    21 February 2023
  • Provides valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.

The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith
  • Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England: its Practice and Practitioners
  • Elizabeth Coatsworth, Michael Pinder
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 June 2002
  • Goldsmiths' products examined, combining discussion of object with analysis of inscription and design, and literary and archaeological evidence for smiths and their work.

Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England

A Companion to Bede

Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England

The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion
  • Richard Hoggett
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 February 2023
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • The huge changes in the landscape as a result of the Christian conversion of East Anglia are examined in this multi-disciplinary study.

The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan
  • A Critical Study
  • Joyce Tally Lionarons
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 February 2023
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • First full study of the homilies of Archbishop Wulfstan, bringing out their most characteristic themes and concerns.

Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England
  • Allen J. Frantzen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    15 May 2014
  • A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.

Old Age in Early Medieval England
  • A Cultural History
  • Thijs Porck
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 January 2023
    Print publication:
    15 February 2019
  • The first full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.

Performance in Beowulf; and other Old English Poems

Bishop Æthelwold, his Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England
  • Power, Belief, and Religious Reform
  • Alison Hudson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2022
    Print publication:
    18 March 2022
  • An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.

Textual Identities in Early Medieval England

Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England
  • Edited by Karen Louise Jolly, Britton Elliott Brooks
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    08 April 2022
  • Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere are investigated in this book.

Priests and their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
  • With contributions by Noel Adams , John Baker , Sue Brunning , László Sándor Chardonnens , Della Hooke , Eric Lacey , Richard North , Marijane Osborn and Victoria Symons
  • Edited by Michael D. J. Bintley, Thomas J. T. Williams
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    16 July 2015
  • For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environmentsinhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everydayknowledge.
    This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-facetednature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to hold a mirror to the self.

    Michael Bintley is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University; Thomas Williams is a doctoral researcher at UCL's Institute of Archaeology.

    Contributors: Noel Adams, John Baker, Michael D. J. Bintley, Sue Brunning, László Sándor Chardonnens, Della Hooke, Eric Lacey, Richard North, Marijane Osborn, Victoria Symons, Thomas J. Williams

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