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The second of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship, presenting biographical essays on the scholars whose work has shaped medieval studies since the 16th century. This volume covers the lives of 35 individuals whose subjects were the languages and literatures of Europe between 500 and 1500.

In "Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England, " Helen Damico presents the first concentrated discussion of the initiatory two-thirds of "Beowulf's" 3, 182 lines in the context of the turbulent years that composed the first half of the eleventh century in Anglo-Danish England Damico offers incisive arguments that major historical events and personages pertaining the the reigns of Cnut and his sons recorded i...

Assess women as women, as they actually appear in the laws, in works written by women, and in canonical literature. This book contains essays that address, correct, and round out the nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxon critical tradition. It also explores the women in Old English literature.