The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture: Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

by Paul E. Szarmach

This collection represents most of the papers delivered on the conference theme of the Fifth Meeting (1991) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, which was the first ISAS meeting in the United how the subject of Anglo-Saxon Studies is conducted in the United States. After an introduction by the dean of Anglo-Saxon Studies in America, Fred C. Robinson, the seventeen papers discuss Historiography, Medieval Reception of Anglo-Saxon England, Art and Archaeology, Literary Approaches, and Manuscript Studies. There is an index of the whole, manuscript citations included.

508 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Paul E. Szarmach is Emeritus Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. He served a five-year term as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and Editor of Speculum. Szarmach's major field of study is Old English prose with special reference to Latin backgrounds.