A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell

A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell

A Guide to Old English is a detailed but accessible introduction to the Old English language for beginners. The language section offers a simple yet comprehensive language reference, including sections on orthography and pronunciation, inflexions, word formation, and syntax. The guide then provides an anthology of the best Old English literary works, with explanatory notes and a detailed glossary, which has been arranged carefully from the simplest texts to the more challenging, to facilitate students' language development.

Whilst retaining many of the elements of previous editions, which have made it so attractive to teachers and students of Old English for over 50 years, the eighth edition of the Guide has been updated in response to feedback from users to include the following additions:

• facsimile of the manuscript page from the beginning of Beowulf
• the first 25 lines of Beowulf, with an exceptionally detailed set of annotations aimed at preparing the student for a thorough study of the poem
• an explanation of Grimm's and Verner's Laws
• text revisions throughout to make the Guide as accessible as possible for undergraduate readers

The book also offers a discussion of Anglo-Saxon literature, history, and culture, and a bibliography directing readers to useful publications on the subject.

Altogether, this is a comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners' guide.

BRUCE M. MITCHELL is Professor Emeritus of Multicultural Education at Eastern Washington University. He is the coauthor of Multicultural Education: An International Guide to Research, Policies, and Programs (1996) and the Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education (1999), both available from Greenwood Press.

ROBERT E. SALSBURY is Professor of Education at Eastern Washington University. With Bruce M. Mitchell, he is the coauthor of Multicultural Education: An International Guide to Research, Policies, and Programs (1996) and the Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education (1999), both available from Greenwood Press.

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ISBN 13	9780631127352
ISBN 10	0631127356
Title	A Guide to Old English
Author	Bruce Mitchell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1982-09-02
Number of pages	271
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