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The first scholarly edition of Byrhtferth's Historia regum, an important source for the early history of Anglo-Saxon England from 560 to 887 AD. The Latin text is provided with facing-page English translation, and extensive annotation explains the significance of Byrhtferth's references to historical events (many of which are unrecorded elsewhere).

Byrhtferth of Ramsey was one of the most learned scholars of late Anglo-Saxon England, and his two saints' Lives-of Oswald, a powerful bishop of Worcester and York in the tenth century, and Ecgwine, the seventh-century founder of Evesham-are among the most important historical sources for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon England.

This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comp...

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Bede's Latin Poetry is the first-ever collected edition of Bede's corpus of Latin verse, based on all surviving manuscript evidence. It includes editions of several hymns and epigrams which have not previously been attributed to Bede, and provides the first edition of an early draft of his metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert'.

This pioneering work provides as complete a list as possible of Latin texts written during the early Middle Ages on Celtic territory or by Celts abroad. Each entry adverts to MSS (where necessary), printed editions, notices in other standard repertories and bibliographies of secondary literature.

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This volume contains translations of forty Latin passiones of saints who were martyred in Rome or its near environs, during the period before the 'peace of the Church' (c. 312). Each translation is accompanied by an individual introduction and commentary.

This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England. It is furnished with appendices that include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors.

St Dionysius was one of the principal saints of medieval France. He is known largely through the writings of Hilduin, the powerful abbot of Saint-Denis in Paris (814-40), who described the life and martyrdom of the saint in prose and verse. Both versions are edited here, with facing-page English translation and commentary.

An essential reference work for this period of English history, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England is now available in a new edition. It brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons. It is the only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures, and languages of England from the Roman withdr...

Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three recent discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poe...

This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars include Whitly Stokes, Sir John Rhys, Arthur Simpson Napier, Sir Israel Gollancz, Hector Munro Chadwick, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Ifor ...

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668 90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure it retained for a millennium. Yet until recently his early career has been unknown. This book builds on the publication of previously unprinted biblical commentaries from Theodore's Canterbury school, and establishes Theodore's cultural and spiritual background and the formation of his learning. Sch...

In this volume, the 'Junius Manuscript', one of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars.

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668 90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure it retained for a millennium. Yet until recently his early career has been unknown. This book builds on the publication of previously unprinted biblical commentaries from Theodore's Canterbury school, and establishes Theodore's cultural and spiritual background and the formation of his learning. Sch...

Translations from the Latin of the ingenious works of Aldelm, first English man of letters. Introduction, bibliography and notes to the texts included.