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A Guide to Old English

10 best books like A Guide to Old English (Bruce Mitchell): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Battle of Maldon, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248), The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Alfred the Great, Roman de Brut, Anglo-Saxon England

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
AuthorDavid Crystal
ISBN0521559677
This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language presents a mass of new information and introduces the subject of language to a fresh generation of students and general readers. Probably the most successful general study of language ever published, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language...
The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
AuthorS.A.J. Bradley
ISBN0460875078
Anglo–Saxon poetry is esteemed for its subtle artistry and for its wealth of insights into the artistic, social and spiritual preoccupations of the formative first centuries of English literature.

This anthology of prose translations covers most of the poetry surviving in the four major...
Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0866982906
Tolkien's original essay, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, was amazing -- if only for its impact on the study of Beowulf. I'm hard-pressed to think of any other essay that changed the world of literary studies so completely. This essay basically sent scholarship in its current direction, rescuing...
The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
AuthorCalvert Watkins
ISBN0618082506
Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European,...
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN0192835475
Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer, among other surviving Anglo-Saxon poems are included in this book. But, besides this, chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms are also incorporated in the anthology.

Kevin Crossley-Holland...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
AuthorAsser
ISBN0140444092
This is a great book to get hold of if you are interested in the Anglo-Saxons or early medieval history. It's packed full of source material - enough to get the curious going, not just Asser's life of Alfred which fascinatingly stops well before Alfred's death (did Asser just die unbeknown to us before...
Alfred the Great
AuthorJustin Pollard
ISBN0719566665
In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)

Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...
Roman de Brut
AuthorWace
ISBN1419107763
Wace (1115 – 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet. The introduction to this work by Eugene Mason gives an excellent account of Wace and the background behind this historical work. Wace begins his history of the Britons as follows. “Constantine came to Totnes, and many a stout knight with him—there...
Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorF.M. Stenton
ISBN0192801392
Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of...
Introduction to Old English
AuthorPeter S. Baker
ISBN0631234543
This innovative introduction to the Old English language focuses on what students need to know in order to engage with Old English literary and historical texts.
A pioneering introduction to Old English designed for a new generation of students. Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional...
The Oxford English Dictionary: 20 Volume Set and CD-ROM [With CDROM]
AuthorJohn Andrew Simpson
ISBN0195219422
The 20-Volume OED and the new Version 3.0 CD-ROM makes exploring the resources of the most authoritative dictionary of the English language easy and complete.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the...
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0007590083
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.Suitable for tablets. Some special characters may not display correctly on older devices.We recommend that you download...
Wheelock's Latin
AuthorFrederic M. Wheelock
ISBN0060956410
This review is for Peter.

This is both a review and a very short guide for those interested in jumping off the Latin cliff without a teacher. This is my first review on Goodreads, so please be gentle.

First off, Wheelock is THE text for learning Latin. I have never come across a text that...
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
AuthorErnst Robert Curtius
ISBN0691018995
In this "magnificant book" (T.S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto...
501 Latin Verbs
AuthorRichard E. Prior
ISBN0812090500
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The Anglo-Saxons
AuthorJames Campbell
ISBN0140143955
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
AuthorOrrin W. Robinson
ISBN0804722218
At first glance, there may seem little reason to think of English and German as variant forms of a single language. There are enormous differences between the two in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and a monolingual speaker of one cannot understand the other at all. Yet modern English and German...
A Biography of the English Language
AuthorCelia M. Millward
ISBN0155016458
The second edition of A Biography of the English Language continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural...
The Lost Gods of England
AuthorBrian Branston
ISBN0195197968
This 1976 book is, as far as my experience stretches, the daddy of them all. It's been cited as a source in probably every other thing I've read on Anglo-Saxon (and by association/implication Norse) mythology, but you don't see it in bookshops any more.

Actually, having read a reasonable amount...
The Viking World
AuthorStefan Brink
ISBN0415333156
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.

Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge...
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
AuthorNicholas Ostler
ISBN0802717713
English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca, not replaced by another.
Empire,...
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