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Welcome © 1998. The Board of the Medieval Institute.Simon Keynes, Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography.

Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography

Simon Keynes

Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research

Medieval Institute
Western Michigan University

The Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research at the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, presents the WWW edition of Simon Keynes's Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography, published as part of the Institute's program for advancing access to texts and reference tools through computer technology and the Internet.

The WWW edition of the bibliography was first published in 1996, adapted for the web by Greg Beckelhymer. The bibliography was substantially revised, updated and augmented in 1998. The revised version of the bibliography has been adapted for the web by John Chandler.

Hardcopies of Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography (OEN Subsidia 13, 3rd ed. (1998)) may be obtained from the Old English Newsletter offices at $10 US per copy. Ordering information may be found on the OEN Subsidia homepage.

This bibliography has been formatted for both older or non-graphical WWW browsers (such as Netscape 1.0 or Lynx) and newer, frames-capable browsers (Netscape 1.02 (or newer) or Microsoft Explorer). The exceptional formatting capabilities of frames allows great versatility in user-control and access to the information presented in the bibliography. It is therefore highly suggested that if possible you upgrade your WWW browser to a frames-capable browser. Follow the link below to access Netscape's software download site.

For those new to frames and the World Wide Web, a few pointers will be helpful. Frames divide your browser "window" into multiple smaller "windows" called frames. Each of these contains its own web-page, and has its own scroll-bars (if needed). A hyperlink clicked in one frame may instruct a new Web-page to load into its neighboring frame, and vice versa. This allows most obviously a user to keep a menu open in one frame and peruse its contents in another. While the user-interface keeps changing slightly, there are a few important points to keep in mind:

  1. Use the Right Mouse Button (if you have one!). In Netscape 2.0 this gives you control to go forward and backward within a frame, whereas the Back button at the top of the browser will take you to the page you were on previous to the 'frames' page. The Back button in Netscape 3.0 and other newer browsers now operates to take you back one page within frames, but the Right Mouse Button can give you more control over the page.
  2. As a general rule, you can re-size the frames. Place the mouse pointer over a frame border, then click and drag the frame border to its new location. Web formatting is designed to work with a variety of screen sizes, but if you find a frame too small on your screen to work with effectively, change its size!
  3. Loading of web pages can be slow, especially during times of high traffic on the Internet (mostly business hours on weekdays), and page elements often load in segments. Text frequently will load first, while graphics and background images often take longer. Once a page has fully loaded into your browser, it should look and operate correctly. Be patient and wait until everything has loaded before you expect all the links to work or everything to look quite right. Your comments on the success of this on-line edition are welcome. Comments or questions on the content of the bibliography may be directed to Simon Keynes (sdk13@cus.cam.ac.uk).

Comments or suggestions on Web-page design, non-working or missed links, and other such problems may be directed to John Chandler (x97chandlerj@wmich.edu)

Enter Simon Keynes' Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography.

'and always after that it grew much worse'

(Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS. D., s.a. 1066)

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Rev. December 4, 1998.