A study of maxims - what they are, why and when they are used - based on detailed investigation of issues, texts and formulas.

An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.

Includes the Junius manuscript, Exeter book, Vercelli book, Beowulf and Judith, metrical psalms of Paris Psalter and the meters of Boethius, poems of the Anglo-

A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of p