Directory of Individual Prose Works Resources

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During the Old English period writers created a variety of prose works such as homilies, saint's lives, histories, and tales of adventure. Among the great Old English prose writers are Aelfric, Wulfstan, and King Alfred.

Subcategories

• Aelfric
• Alfredian Prose
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Wulfstan

Resources in This Category

• Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 560-975

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/560-975dooms.asp
  Modern English translation of the laws of the Anglo-Saxon kings through Edgar (959-975). The Mercian and North People's laws are also translated. Includes glossaries.

• Anglo-Saxon Law: Extracts From Early Laws of the English.

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/saxlaw.asp
  Provides modern English translations of excerpts from important legal documents.

• Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: A Cultural Database

  http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/
  Contains texts and translations of the Anglo-Saxon handbooks of penance. A cultural index lists categories like animals, emotions, and food and quotes passages from the handbooks that refer to each category.

• Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law

  http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/print.php/essays/rabin41_3/Array
  Andrew Rabin's student edition of five Old English lawsuits concerning women. Includes detailed introduction, notes, and glossary.

• Apollonius of Tyre

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/apolloniusfram.html
  Excerpt from Old English text, with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Apollonius of Tyre

  http://www.westga.edu/~mcrafton/white/formhel.htm
  Old English text and modern English translation by Benjamin Thorpe.

• Blickling Homilies

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Blickling_Morris.pdf
  Modern English translation by R. Morris.

• Blickling Homily X - The End of this World is Near

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/blicklingx/blicklingx.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by R. Morris.

• Electronic Sawyer

  http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html
  A searchable, browsable catalog of extant Anglo-Saxon charters, based on the printed work by Peter Sawyer. Each entry summarizes the contents of the charter, lists the manuscripts that contain the charter, and cites any printed editions, translations, and commentaries. Some entries include the text of the charter and a modern English translation of the text.

• Kemble: the Anglo-Saxon Charters Website

  http://www.kemble.asnc.cam.ac.uk/
  Contains online resources for the study of Anglo-Saxon charters. Work in progress.

• Laws of Æthelberht: a Student Edition

  http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/print.php/essays/oliver38_1/Array
  An edition of the Old English text by Lisi Oliver. Includes detailed introduction, notes, and glossary.

• Legend of St. Andrew

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/The_Legend_of_St._Andrew
  Old English text.

• Letter of Alexander to Aristotle

  http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/Beowulf2.htm
  Modern English translation by Andy Orchard.

• Letter of Alexander to Aristotle.

  http://faculty.washington.edu/stevickr/graphotactics/a_letter.pdf
  Old English text.

• Life of St. Christopher

  http://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/saint-christopher/
  Modern English translation by Aaron Hostetter.

• St. Mary of Egypt

  http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/276/
  Linda Cantara's textual study of an Old English prose saint's life. Compares and contrasts two versions of the life and describes variant readings in three major categories: spelling, vocabulary, and syntax. Also touches on religious, cultural, and literary aspects of the life.

• Wonders of the East

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Wondersfram.html
  Excerpt from the Old English text. Each word is hot-linked to a glossary entry.

 

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