Old English Literature

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This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow

How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems

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Daniel Donoghue shows how the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled them to navigate a daunting task with apparent

Daniel W. O'Donoghue, Jr., Esquire

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Lady Godiva

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This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from t

The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

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A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between re