Histories, General Guides

Alexander, Michael. A History of Old English Literature. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002.

Amodio, Mark. The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook. Boston: Wiley, 2013.

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Trans. D.H. Farmer and R.E. Latham. London and New York: Penguin, 1990.

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Trans. Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.

Blair, Peter Hunter. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1977.

Campbell, James, ed. The Anglo-Saxons. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.

Crawford, Sally. Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford and Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2009.

Davies, Wendy, ed. From The Vikings To The Normans. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.

Fulk, R.D. and Christopher M. Cain. A History of Old English Literature. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.

Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Calder. A New Critical History of Old English Literature. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1986.

Johnson, David and Elaine Treharne, eds. Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.

Lees, Clare A. Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Liuzza, R.M., ed. Old English Literature: Critical Essays. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002.

Magennis, Hugh. The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011.

Mitchell, Bruce. An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.

O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine, ed. Reading Old English Texts. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Pulsiano, Phillip and Elaine Treharne, ed. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Malden: Blackwell, 2001. [available online through BC Libraries]

Stodnick, Jacqueline and Renée R. Trilling, ed. A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Malden: Blackwell, 2012.

Whitelock, Dorothy. The Beginnings of English Society. The Pelican History of England 2. 2^nd rev. ed. London and New York: Penguin, 1991.

Yorke, Barbara. The Anglo-Saxons. Stroud: Sutton, 1998.

Also of interest

Damico, Helen and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, eds. New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1990.

Deanesley, Margaret. The Pre-Conquest Church in England. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1961.

Dockray-Miller, Mary. Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England. New York: St. Martin's, 2000.

Fell, Christine. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1984. Reprint, Oxford, 1986.

Frantzen, Allen. Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990.

---, ed. Speaking Two Languages: Traditional Disciplines and Contemporary Theory in Medieval Studies. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1991.

---. Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998.

---. Anglo-Saxon Keywords. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2014.

Harwood, Britton J. and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1994.

Hermann, John P. Allegories of War: Language and Violence in Old English Poetry. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1989.

Hollis, Stephanie. Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell, 1992.

Horner, Shari. The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2001.

Howe, Nicholas. Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989.

Irvine, Martin. The Making of Textual Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Lees, Clare. Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon England. Lincoln and London: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Liuzza, Roy, trans. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2000.

Loyn, H.R. Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest. Harlow and New York: Longman, 1991.

North, Richard. Heathen Gods in Old English Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Shippey. T.A. Old English Verse. London: Hutchinson, 1972.

Stanley, Eric. Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past. Cambridge and Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

Stanton, Robert, The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge and Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 2002.

Wilcox, Jonathan, ed. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Woodbridge and Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 2000.