Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period

Helen Damico is a professor emerita of English and founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly Beowulf.John Leyerle was a professor of English at the University of Toronto, a driving force in creating the Centre for Medieval Studies there, and also worked hard to help establish CARA.

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