Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World collects together in 18 previously out-of-print volumes some key texts in the study of the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the early beginnings of England. Books cover the art, literature, and poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, as well as their politics, religion and culture, and their contacts with other peoples such as the Vikings and Celts.
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By R.H.M. Dolley
August 10, 2023
Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era. It examines the coins of the end of Roman Britain and those of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, as well as those of the Vikings, Ireland and Wales....
By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
August 10, 2023
Anglo-Saxon England (1979) takes the history and archaeology of Britain from the fifth century AD through to 1066, covering perhaps the most enigmatic period in British history, when post-Roman, native British and Continental influences amalgamated, in a manner often difficult to unravel. Drawing ...
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By Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 10, 2023
Beowulf and Judith (1953) contains an extensive introduction to the texts of Beowulf and Judith, the full texts of the poems themselves, and comprehensive notes to the texts....
By Lloyd Laing
August 10, 2023
Celtic Britain (1979) traces the history of the Celts and Celtic culture from the arrival of the first scattered groups of settlers in Britain in the seventh century BC to the development of the kingdoms of medieval Scotland and Wales. Although a Celtic culture continued to flourish independently ...
By T.D. Kendrick
August 10, 2023
Late Saxon and Viking Art (1949) is a lavishly-illustrated examination of the art of the Saxon era – the carvings, sculpture, illustrations, drawings and paintings that emerged from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking cultures....
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By George Philip Krapp, Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 10, 2023
The Exeter Book (1936) contains the texts of the Exeter Book, the largest of the great miscellanies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, together with an extensive introduction and notes....
By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
August 10, 2023
The Origins of Britain (1980) follows the path of man’s occupation of Britain from the scattered pockets of habitation in the earliest Palaeolithic period through to his growing domination of the landscape and his capacity to mould his environment evident in the late Bronze Age. Among the many ...
By Martyn J. Whittock
August 10, 2023
The Origins of England (1986) gives a comprehensive overview of the crucial period of migration and settlement that can be seen as the beginning of English history. It takes into account recent discoveries and debates on the origins of the English, their arrival and conquest of England, and the ...
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By George Philip Krapp
August 10, 2023
The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius (1932) contains the texts and comprehensive notes on the Paris Psalter (the most extensive collection of Anglo-Saxon metrical translations of the Psalms) and the Meters of Boethius (the surviving Anglo-Saxon versions of De Consolatione Philosophiae of ...
By H.R. Ellis Davidson
August 10, 2023
The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such ...
By T.D. Kendrick
August 09, 2023
Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1972) was the first account to be written of art in England in the period of Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon styles. Famous illuminated manuscripts, the best of the sculptured stone crosses, and many splendid pieces early metalwork are examined in this ...
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By Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
August 09, 2023
The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less so. Each verse text is accompanied by an ...