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John D. Niles

Author of A Beowulf Handbook

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John D. Niles is the Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. A former President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, he is the author or editor of a dozen show more books on Old English literature and related topics, including The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past (Wiley Blackwell, 2015) and Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition (1983). show less

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Works by John D. Niles

A Beowulf Handbook (1997) — Editor — 80 copies

Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (1999) 14 copies

Old English literature : a guide to criticism, with selected readings (2016) 9 copies

Medical Writings from Early Medieval England: The Old English Herbal, Lacnunga, and Other Texts (1) (Dumbarton Oaks… (2023) 8 copies

Anglo-Scandinavian England (1989) 6 copies

The idea of Anglo-Saxon England, 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past (2015) 5 copies

Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition (1983) 4 copies

Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) (2007) 4 copies

God's Exiles and English Verse: On the Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter Medieval) (2018) 4 copies

The Genesis of Books: Studies in the Scribal Culture of Medieval England in Honour of A. N. Doane (Studies in the Early… (2011) — Editor — 3 copies

Old English Enigmatic Poems And the Play of the Texts (Studies in the Early Middle Ages) (2006) 2 copies

Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination (MEDIEVAL & RENAIS TEXT STUDIES) (2016) 2 copies

Old English literature in context : ten essays (1980) 1 copy

Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller (2022) 1 copy

Scandinavian Studies Anglo-Scandinavian England 1987 1 copy

Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts (Studies in the Early Middle Ages) (2007) 1 copy

Singing Soldiers 1 copy

Associated Works

Beowulf: A Prose Translation [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1998) — Contributor — 136 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship (2009) — Contributor — 27 copies

Teaching Oral Traditions (1998) — Contributor — 18 copies

De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy

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ISBNs: 36
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