Old English Tradition contains eighteen new essays by leading scholars in the field of Old English literary studies. The collection is centered around five key areas of research dash;Old English poetics, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Beowulf, codicology, and early Anglo-Saxon studiessdash;on which the work of scholar J. R. Hall, the volumeisquo;s honorand, has been influential over the course of his career.
The volumessquo;s contents range from fresh insights on individual Old English poems such as The Wifecsquo;s Lament and Beowulf; new studies in Old English metrics and linguistics; codicological examinations of individual manuscripts; fresh editions of understudied texts; and innovative examinations of the role of early antiquarians in shaping the field of Old English literary studies as we know it today.
