Anglo-Saxon England

Resources

Jul 19, 2023

20:21

With Kent wrapped up, and while I’m working on the next part of the podcast, I wanted to do another patron request episode. I have been asked to talk a bit about good books and resources for studying Anglo-Saxon history. This episode will be more free form than others, I just going to go through what for me are some of my go to resources. Some of these are academic books, so when they are likely to be expensive I will say so and I will try to suggest good alternatives where possible.

Resources recommended in this episode:

- A Guide to Old English by B. Mitchell and F. C. Robinson

- http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/

- https://www.memrise.com/

- English Historical Documents: Volume 1: c.500–1042, edited by D. Whitelock

- Councils and Synods: with other documents relating to the English Church, vol. I, part I: A.D. 871–1066, edited by D. Whitelock, M. Brett and C. N. L. Brooke.

- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles by M. Swanton

- Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Oxford Medieval Texts), transl. and ed. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors

- The Complete Old English Poems (The Middle Ages Series), transl. C. Williamson

- https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/

- The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook by M. C Amodio

- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien

- https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/about/index.html

- The Anglo-Saxons, ed. J. Campbell

- The Anglo-Saxon World by N. J. Higham and M. Ryan

- The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by M. Morris

- The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes, and D. Scragg

- The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society by J. Blair