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The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the majorcourse of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed inlate Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript. The clearlydomestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody. This is the first full modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.

Christian martyrs --- Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Christianity --- Martyrologium Saxonice --- Martyrology, Old English --- Old English Martyrology --- Altenglische Martyrologium --- Menologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Old English metrical calendar --- Calendrier anglo-saxon --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Anglo-Saxon liturgy. --- Anglo-Saxon poetry. --- Christian festivals. --- Christian worship. --- Domestic perspective. --- English philology. --- Grammar. --- Kazutomo Karasawa. --- Liturgical year. --- Menologium. --- Old English Metrical Calendar. --- Prosody. --- Solar/natural year. --- Vocabulary. --- cultural history. --- liturgical practices. --- liturgical traditions. --- liturgical year. --- manuscript studies. --- medieval Christianity. --- medieval liturgy. --- religious texts.

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Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England.