The Anglo-Saxon Homepage
This page was put together for the use of the graduate students in Old English at Washington State University, and serves as the virtual "command post" for all my students reading Anglo-Saxon texts. It's not restricted to our students, however, so anyone happening upon this page should feel free to have a look and follow the links to some wonderful sites. There's nothing very original here outside of my old slides (see "Images from Anglo-Saxon England" at the bottom of this page); if you find them useful somehow, please drop me a line before reproducing them. And while I'm on that subject: the "Anglo-Saxon clip art" reproduced on this page is by Eva Wilson, Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Craftspeople, Dover Books, 1983.
Essential Reference Sites
Prof.
Catherine Ball's Old English Pages: The definitive Anglo-Saxon site, the despair of
anything else in its class. Everything you need is here somewhere, including links to everywhere else.
The Complete
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Richard Rawlinson Center
for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research fosters teaching and research in the history
and culture of Anglo-Saxon England and in the broader field of manuscript studies. The site provides
links to some interesting bibliographies, and to affiliated publications and projects such as the
Old English Newsletter and the Electronic Beowulf Project (see next link).
The Electronic Beowulf Project , directed by
Profs. Kevin Kiernan and Paul Szarmach, has assembled a huge database of digital images of the Beowulf manuscript
and related manuscripts and printed texts. The site displays a few of the amazing enhanced
images as a way of advertising the project's CDs. The cutting edge of digital preservation and
restoration.
ORB (Online Reference
Book) Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Anglo-Saxon Studies Page (Stanford University Libraries) --lots of good links and bibliographical material.
The
Labyrinth: Anglo-Saxon Culture
Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Select Bibliography by
C. P. Biggam; very full, impressive collection and presentation.
Old
English Select Bibliography from University of Virginia.
Beowulf Resources
*** N.B.: Do not overlook these essential collections when doing Beowulf research:
The
Labyrinth and Cathy Ball's Old English Pages . ***
I. Bibliographies
Beowulf: A Students' Bibliography, from Prof.
Martin Irvine's courses at Georgetown University.
II. Modern English Translations Online
Prof. Anne Savage of McMaster University has produced a brilliant site,
Beowulf in Hypertext, including a Modern English
translation.
An anonymous Modern English translation appears at the
University of Virginia.
III. General Information
Angelcynn (see general link below under "Historical and Cultural Contexts") provides an interesting page on
"Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England c.400 - 900 A.D.
" with reference to Beowulf .
Old English Courses and Teaching Materials
Prof. Murray McGillivray's Internet
OE Course at U. of Calgary provides a grammar and several glossed texts.
Prof. Catherine N. Ball's unique and useful
"Hwaet! Old English in Context" .
Prof. Peter Baker's "Intro. to OE" Course at the University of Virginia: access to a
"Tour of OE Culture" is restricted, but all can make use of some
sentences
for pronunciation practice drawn from Mitchell & Robinson's Guide to Old English
.
Links to Related Texts
Tacitus,
Germania
Gildas, De
excidio Britanniae
Historical and Cultural Contexts
Regia Anglorum: Anglo-Saxon,
Viking, Norman, and British Living History
"Angelcynn": Anglo-Saxon
Living History 400-900 A.D. : a historical society; some interesting
pages, esp. one on the recent discovery of an Anglo-Saxon helmet in Northamptonshire
and an Anglo-Saxon horseman's burial in Suffolk.
Anglo-Saxon
Archaeology links
Anglo-Saxon
England Before the Vikings
"Bede's World", The Museum of Early
Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow, a 100-acre site dedicated to recreating the Age of Bede.
Britannia Magazine:
Anglo-Saxon & Medieval England
Other Connections to Medieval Literature, etc.
Hanly Courses Page: here are links to my other medieval lit. sites, such as Chaucer, European Medieval Narrative, Medieval Drama, etc., as well as "Ancient World" and an undergrad English-lit. survey.
This page maintained by Prof. Michael Hanly, Department of English , Washington
State University, Pullman WA, U.S.A., 99164-5020. E-mail address: hanly@wsu.edu.
Last updated 10 February 2004. Wes thu hal.
