Runs: 20 weekly meetings on Mondays from 7.30-9.30pm starting 13th January, 1997. For more information contact: The Manager, Public Programmes, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA; Tel: 01865 270380/270312.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons? What is Old English? (week 1)
Old English: An Inflected Language (week 2)
Old English Literature: An Overview (week 3)
Text: Some Practice Sentences (week 1), pp. 163-4.
Ælfric's Colloquy (weeks 2 and 3), pp. 174-181.
The Anglo-Saxon Invasions and the early Kingdoms (week 4)
The Dominance of Wessex (week 5)
From Ethelred to William the Conqueror (week 6)
Selections from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 196-199, plus pieces in translation from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ed. G Garmonsway (weeks 5-6).
An Introduction to Old English Prose: Alfred the Great (week 7)
Ælfric (week 8)
Wulfstan (week 9)
Text: Alfred's Preface to Gregory's Pastoral Care (week 7), pp. 188-191.
Ælfric's Preface to Genesis (week 8), 182-187.
Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi in translation (week 9)
An Introduction to Palaeography and Codicology (week 10)
Old English Manuscripts and Later Anglo-Saxon Scholars (week 11)
Text: Transcription Exercises from facsimiles (weeks 10 and 11)
An Introduction to Old English Poetry (week 12)
Old English poetical Manuscripts (week 13)
Text: Riddle (c), p. 217 (week 12)
Riddle (a), p. 216 plus othrs in translation (week 13)
The Elegaic Poems (week 14)
Text: The Wanderer (week 14), pp. 254-259.
The Wanderer (week 15), and The Ruin/The Seafarer in translation
An Introduction to Beowulf (week 16)
Text: Beowulf's Fight with Grendel, pp. 268-275. (week 16, 17)
Beowulf Consoles Hrothgar for Æschere's Death, pp. 275-78 (week 18)
Beowulf's Funeral, pp. 279-80 (week 19)
What do the Anglo-Saxons teach us? (week 20)