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Resources: Useful Links and Other Materials
This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list, and can only list starting points. Please refer to the category 'Further Collections of Links and Materials' at the very bottom of this page for similar collections of links and materials.
Categories listed below: General Background Reading, Old English Texts in the Original, Old English Texts in Translation, Organisations, Research Projects, Museums and Anglo-Saxon Sites, Further Collections of Links and Materials.
General Background Reading
J. Campbell, The Anglo-Saxons (Harmondsworth, 1982): large format, lavishly illustrated, with plates, drawings and maps.
M. Godden and M. Lapidge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge,1991): a good survey of historical periods and literary topics.
M. Lapidge and others, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 1999): entries with short bibliographies on all major aspects of Anglo-Saxon England.
Old English Texts in the Original
M. Lapidge and others, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 1999) lists standard editions of all the major texts. Some texts are also available in on-line editions:
Labyrinth Library: menu of Old English on-line texts
Ælfric's Homilies on Judith, Esther and The Maccabees, ed. S. D. Lee
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies, ed. J. T. Lionarons
Beowulf in Hypertext, ed. A. Savage
Old English Texts in Translation
S. A. J. Bradley, trans., Anglo-Saxon Poetry (London, 1982)
R. Hamer, trans., A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse (London, 1970)
M. Alexander, trans., The Earliest English Poems, 3rd edn (Harmondsworth, 1992)
Organisations
ISAS: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Old English Newsletter: website listing many resources
EPNS: English Place-Name Society
Regia Anglorum: re-enactment society
Research Projects
PASE: Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, aims to compile a register of Anglo-Saxon persons
The Alfredian Boethius Project: aims to chart the Anglo-Saxon adaptation and appropriation of Boethius
English Manuscripts 1060-1220: investigates (amongst other things) the status of English in manuscripts written after the Norman Conquest
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: a register of literary texts known to and used by Anglo-Saxons
An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English: draws on some 250 manuscripts
Museums and Anglo-Saxon Sites
British Library: the Beowulf-manuscript and other Anglo-Saxon manuscripts on permanent display
British Museum: extensive collections of objects and artefacts from Anglo-Saxon England
Sutton Hoo: Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Site, Suffolk
West Stow: reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village, Suffolk
Bede's World: Jarrow, where Bede lived and worked, Tyne and Wear
Further Collections of Links and Materials
