Aenglisc
Texts from the English literary and folk traditions, from Old English and Middle English through ballads, early modern prose, witchcraft pamphlets, and wonder literature.
Texts
Old English foundations: Anglo-Saxon poetry, Bede, Beowulf, and the earliest literary record of English before the Norman Conquest.
Middle English in renewal: romance, marvel travel, border song, and the literary return of English after the Norman Conquest.
Fifteenth-century English and Scots writing: late medieval balladry, courtly poetry, and popular narrative before the Tudor turn.
Sixteenth-century English: Tudor prose, Reformation instruction, demonology, travel, drama, and balladry in a rapidly changing language.
Seventeenth-century English: devotion, science, colonial encounter, witchcraft trials, fairy faith, biography, poetry, and popular song.
Eighteenth-century English: the ballad revival of Percy's Reliques and Defoe's history of the Devil.
Nineteenth-century English literature, folklore, antiquarian study, and supernatural history after the Romantic turn.
English Arthurian, Beowulf, chivalric, and heroic literary inheritance, including Malory and later English-language retellings.
Cross-century ballad materials and anthologies that gather English popular song across periods rather than belonging cleanly to one century.
English fairy tales, folk custom, Robin Hood, West Country lore, games, seasonal practice, and popular tradition.
Christian and European witchcraft, demonology, persecution, trial theory, and the theological machinery of witch-hunting.