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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Beowulf Beowulf Elaine Strong Skill The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feat… OL13002716W
Before the closet Before the closet Allen J. Frantzen Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval… OL1861476W
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination Clark, David,Nicholas Perkins xiv, 283 p., [4] p. of plates : 25 cm OL21025299W
Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering Bonnie Wheeler,R. F. Yeager,Hill, John M. vi, 297 pages ; 24 cm OL21796848W
A critical history of Old English literature A critical history of Old English literature Stanley B. Greenfield A critical study of the background and achievements of English literature from its origins in the sixth century to its continuing influence after the Norman Conquest. OL4633280W
Satan unbound Satan unbound Peter Dendle "The devil is perhaps the single most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically… OL5992233W
The discourse of enclosure The discourse of enclosure Shari Horner "Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literar… OL7797600W
Arthurian Women Arthurian Women Thelma Fenster lxxvii, 344 p. ; 23 cm OL8104410W