As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Comp

This volume of essays is comprehensively, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same time offers original insights into the work of one of the most importan

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

A key introductory guide for students to Bede's cultural world, his writings, and his reputation in later times.

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with