At the close of the ninth century Alfred the Great lamented the decay of teaming in England and proposed a program of official translations and scholarly study

Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their te

The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremitting

Most Old English literature was translated or adapted from Latin: what was translated, and when, reflects cultural development and the increasing respectability