I'm looking for good literature about the culture and history of the anglo-saxon people, I simply do not trust reddits recommendations. I already have several copies of Beowulf and have ordered some books on their poetry.
>>25285639F. M. Stenton's Anglo-Saxon England is the book you're looking for.
>>25285654Why the long face?Viktor Rydberg is good too
>>25285639There's a lot to mention here so I'll give what I think's important>HistoryThe Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris; Came out a few years ago, narrative, very accessible without being dumbed down. Good gateway book, I'd start here. If you want to go deeper/more academic, then The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham and Martin Ryan; probably the best single-volume modern academic survey, covers politics, religion, economy, culture from the migrations to 1066. Also notable is Anglo-Saxon England by Frank Stenton like >>25285654 said, I wouldn't start here but it's THE classic Oxford History volume here. Old (1940s iirc, with a major revision in the late 60s or early 70s) and pretty dense, some of the specific claims/history's been challenged (Stenton's weak on social and cultural history, he wrote it before the archeological shift in A-S studies, doesn't dig into the church economy nearly as much as he should, etc) but still cited constantly for a reason and still shapes how everyone writes about the period. Finally maybe you'd like The Earliest English Kings by D.P. Kirby, which is a tight, focused political history of the seventh through ninth centuries, when "England" as a nationality/idea/culture/etc was being created. Really interesting ethnic/cultural study, overturned a lot of what I'd naively assumed about how Anglo-Saxons thought of themselves and others>CultureGiven you've ordered multiple copies of Beowulf (shoutout Heaney, not the most strictly accurate/scholarly translation but I think he gets across what it must've been like to hear Beowulf the best, so in that sense best translation) I'd start with The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066 by Paul Hill; solid on warfare, weapons, and military organization, light on other shit as you'd expect. If you're curious about day-to-day life for the average Anglo-Saxon person, Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford is what you want. It's exactly what the title says, an archeological grounded look at how people actually lived in the period. You really need a history of religion as it was practiced/how it influenced the Anglo-Saxon worldview, so I'd go The Anglo-Saxon Church by John Blair; truly magisterial work on how Christianity reshaped the landscape and society. It's long as shit but it's the standard reference for a reason. A good compliment to all the above is Anglo-Saxon Art: A New History by Leslie Webster. You can learn a stunning amount about a culture's psyche by examining how they decorate objects. It's beautifully illustrated, and it's got the Sutton Hoo material, manuscripts, metalwork, etc alongside cultural and historical context
>>25285639do internet searching you retard
>>25285731Sorry for disgracing your literature board with a question about literature you rotten toothed faggot.
>>25285669>Why the long face?Annunaki genes.
>>25285695Good list. I’ll addRichard North - Heathen Gods in Old English LiteratureDella Hooke - Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and LandscapeCraig Williamson - The Complete Old English PoemsKathleen Herbert - Looking for the Lost Gods of EnglandStephen Pollington - The Elder Gods: the Otherworld of Early England
