Bøger af Rachel A. Burns

Presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, paying special attention to lineation, and arguing that the vernacular verse page is the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose," but like Old English verse.

An up-to-the-minute survey of the importance of metrical analysis to textual criticism in Old English studies from international specialists.