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John D. Niles is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. A past president of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, he is the author or editor of a dozen books on Old English literature and related topics, including Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition (1983) and Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (1997).
List of Vignettes vi
Preface and Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations xiii
List of Figures xv
1 The Impact of the Norman Conquest 1
2 The Discovery of Anglo]Saxon England in Tudor Times 49
3 British Antiquaries and the Anglo]Saxon Past 77
4 The Founding of a Discipline 1600–1700 109
5 A Period of Consolidation 1700–1800 147
6 The Romantics and the Discovery of Old English Verse 186
7 The Triumph of Philology 220
8 Old English Studies in North America 265
9 Anglo]Saxon England and the Empire 302
Afterword 378
Some Landmark Publications 381
Works Cited 395
Index 415
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