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 viPreface and Acknowledgements viiAbbreviations xiiiList of Figures xv1 The Impact of the Norman Conquest 12 The Discovery of Anglo]Saxon England in Tudor Times 493 British Antiquaries and the Anglo]Saxon Past 774 The Founding of a Discipline 1600–1700 1095 A Period of Consolidation 1700–1800 1476 The Romantics and the Discovery of Old English Verse 1867 The Triumph of Philology 2208 Old English Studies in North America 2659 Anglo]Saxon England and the Empire 302Afterword 378Some Landmark Publications 381Works Cited 395Index 415

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