
Edited by Robin Norris
In comparison to a wealth of knowledge about Ælfric . . . we know almost nothing about the anonymous authors of Euphrosyne, Eustace, Mary of Egypt, and The Seven Sleepers, except that, for some reason, each was interested in reading, translating, and transmitting one of these four texts. Each of the four essays in this collection explores what those reasons might have been.
Old English Newsletter Subsidia 35
Copyright 2011 pp. x + 118
ISBN 978-1-58044-163-6 (paperback) $15.00
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Originally delivered as a lecture at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, this volume was published in 2002 as Ælfric von Eynsham und seine Zeit, introducing, as Gneuss says, “an Anglo-Saxon author . . . who was the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English.”
Old English Newsletter Subsidia 34
Copyright 2009, pp. x + 44
ISBN 978-1-58044-144-5 (paperback) $12.00
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