Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book a

Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to hu

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discuss

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotio

The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of