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Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College)

10 best books like Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College) (Unknown): Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Golden Legend, The Battle of Maldon, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248), The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0460876597
One of the boldest flavors of Elizabethan English. There's a great point in the Defence where he declares that, poetic laurels being preeminent, Alexander the Great and Darius feuded merely to decide "who would be cock of this world's dung-hill." A poet and theorist, diplomat and courtier, who also...
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
AuthorBede
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.

The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
The Golden Legend
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
ISBN0140446486
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c....
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...
The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
AuthorÉmile Mâle
ISBN0064300323
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
AuthorArthur O. Lovejoy
ISBN0674361539
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
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 Singer of Tales
AuthorAlbert Bates Lord
ISBN0674808819
This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs...
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...
A Guide to Old English
AuthorBruce Mitchell
ISBN0631226362
For more than thirty years, A Guide to Old English has been the standard introduction to Old English language and literature. This updated sixth edition retains the structure and style of the popular previous editions, and includes two new, much-requested texts: Wulf and Eadwacer and Judith.The...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
AuthorAngus Wilson
ISBN0140174249
Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in...
Erec and Enide
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0820321419
Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. When the lovers become...
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...
The Evolution of Medieval Thought
AuthorDavid Knowles
ISBN0582494265
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.

Preface to First Edition
Preface...
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
AuthorM.L. West
ISBN0199280754
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries,...
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN0521080339
The Miller's tale deals boldly with a thorny problem which is the motivational human need, Sexual appetite, along with cunning and folly.
On the one hand, it focuses on the nature of good and evil, how an impoverished student named Nicholas who is depicted as a very good man is in reality a shrewd devious...
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...
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