This chapter has eleven sections: 1. Bibliography; 2. Manuscript Studies, Palaeography, and Facsimiles; 3. Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts: 4. Literature: General; 5. The Poems of the Exeter Book; 6. The Poems of the Vercelli Book; 7. The Poems of the Junius Manuscript; 8. Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript; 9. Other Poems; 10. Prose; 11. Reception. Sections 1, 2, 7, and 8 are by
... [Show full abstract] Simon Thomson; sections 3, 4, 10, and 11 are by Eric Lacey; sections 5, 6, and 9 are by Victoria Symons.