Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history, but the upheaval inspired them to produce landmark texts in early Old English studies.

Introduction: Medieval Studies in a Time of Crisis
Chapter One: Medievalism, the Self, and the World: Simonds D'Ewes and His Books
Chapter Two: Abraham Wheelock's Godly Historian: The 1643 / 1644 Bede
Chapter Three: The Law's Deep Roots: Roger Twysden's Edition of William Lambarde's Archaionomia and Leges Henrici Primi
Chapter Four: Monuments and Memory: William Somner's Antiquities of Canterbury and Poems on the Regicide
Chapter Five: "The Saxons Live Againe": William Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Chapter Six: The Echoing Past: William Dugdale and Early Medieval Warwickshire
Epilogue: Texts in Conversation: John Milton's Paradise Regained and the Old English Christ and Satan