Description: The Old English Chronicle offer a brief year-by-year summary of important national events such as invasions and the deaths of political and religious figures from the fifth through the twelfth centuries. Volume I includes newly edited texts and expert translations of The A-Text to 1001 along with related poems such as The Battle of Maldon.
Brief description: Janet Bately is the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London.