A New Introduction to Old English Literature will change the way readers think about this fascinating - if challenging - period of literary history. Written with vigour and a keen understanding of the readers' needs, this book rips up the rule book and brings Old English into the 21st Century

North and Allard also change the perception of the newcomer. Most Old English guides begin with the Christian literature, before moving on to the heroic, blood and thunder material like Beowulf. This book starts with Beowulf and the pagan heroic, before moving to the Christian via a pivotal chapter on The Dream of the Rood - one of the great works of Old English literature - which combines pagan heroism and Christian morality in the embodied figure of the Cross.

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