This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the
emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland,
including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and
Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest
poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the
historical and intellectual background to these works, and
considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the
earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known
texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as
well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints'
lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such
as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the
monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the
major periods in literary history. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
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