Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (The Exeter DVD) / Edition 2

by Bernard J. Muir, Nick Kennedy

Overview

Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. This edition on DVD will be an invaluable historical and literary acquisition for libraries and an indispensable reference work for medievalists and other scholars.
 
The DVD contains the revised second edition of The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry linked to a full-colour digital facsimile and images of various other related historical documents. Also included is a new codicological report on the manuscript’s current binding. The images used are of an extremely high resolution; they often provide more information than is available from a physical examination of the manuscript itself.
 
The DVD is also available as a special package with a copy of the revised two-volume second edition in hardback (ISBN 9780859896306).
 
This edition includes many newly-discovered alterations to the poetic texts in addition to the four hundred new readings listed in the first edition. The Bibliography and Commentary have also been updated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859896313
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2006
Series:	University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	904
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship (Exeter); Vita Sancti Wilfridi Auctore Edmero: The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).

Editorial Reviews

"... a valuable updating of its forebears. Bernard Muir's painstaking examination of both the manuscript and the enormous amount of scholarship on it has resulted in a wealth of new information alongside the riches of the old. This is a fine and full edition."—Speculum

From the Publisher

Bernard Muir's painstaking examination of both the manuscript and the enormous amount of scholarship on it has resulted in a wealth of new information alongside the riches of the old. This is a fine and full edition.

Speculum