Autor: Hugh Magennis

This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews tradi …

An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney’s version alongside other influential renditions. A senior scholar writing here at the height of his powers and bringi …

This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews tradi …

Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature. Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of read …

The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding of how the old is continually made anew The first d …

A senior scholar writing here at the height of his powers and bringing experience and insight to an important topic… the second chapter is one of the best short, general introductions to the artist …