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`Anglo-Saxon Texts' is a series of scholarly editions (with translations) of important texts from Anglo-Saxon England, whether written in Latin or Old English. The series aims to offer critical texts with suitable apparatus and accurate modern English translations, together with informative general introductions and full historical and literary commentaries.

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8 results in Anglo-Saxon Texts

Ælfrician Homilies and Varia

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
  • Edited by Kazutomo Karasawa
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2015
  • The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the majorcourse of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed inlate Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript. The clearlydomestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody.
    This is the first full modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works.

    Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.

Two Ælfric Texts: The Twelve Abuses and The Vices and Virtues
  • An Edition and Translation of De duodecimo abusiuis and De octo uitiis et de duodecimo abusiuis
  • Edited by Mary Clayton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    19 December 2013
  • The texts edited in this volume are Ælfric's vernacular versions of two highly influential early medieval ethical treatises. The first, De duodecim abusiuis, is his Old English version of a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin tract dealing with the twelve abuses of the world. The second, De octo uitiis et de duodecim abusiuis, is a composite text; it combines a treatment of the eight vices and the complementary eight virtues, also found as the last part of Ælfric's Lives of Saints XVI, with the twelve abuses. The main source for the virtues and vices is Alcuin's ninth-century De uirtutibus et uitiis. Both texts were composed in Ælfric's hallmark rhythmical, alliterative prose. This new edition provides, for the first time, critical editions of both texts, with a facing translation, presented with full apparatus; it also includes an extensive discussion of the sources and how they are treated. Mary Clayton is Professor of Old and Middle English, University College Dublin.

The Old English Martyrology
  • Edition, Translation and Commentary
  • Christine Rauer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    20 June 2013
  • The 'Old English Martyrology' is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in Anglo-Saxon England; it also represents one of the most impressive examples of encyclopaedic writing from the European Middle Ages. Probably intended as a reference work, it was used and transmitted for over 200 years, providing its readers with information on native and foreign saints, time measurement, the seasons of the year, biblical events, and cosmology. Its lively and engaging vignettes illustrate the importance of miracle stories for the early medieval cult of saints. This new edition presents a revised text, with a facing-page, newly-prepared English translation; they are accompanied by a commentary based on a fresh comparison with some 250 Latin and Old English texts, the first published glossary for this text, and extensive bibliographical information and indices. Dr Christine Rauer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England

The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
  • Edited by Daniel Anlezark
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 March 2023
    Print publication:
    19 November 2009
  • First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant.

Aelfric's De Temporibus Anni

Aelfric's Life of Saint Basil the Great
  • Background and Context
  • Edited by Gabriella Corona
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 March 2023
    Print publication:
    19 October 2006
  • Full study, with text and facing translation, of an influential tenth-century work.