Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade <i>Riddles at work</i> provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The contributors treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition but most importantly they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated by scholarship. Together the chapters reveal that there is no single right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths. This book will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It contains new as well as established voices including Jonathan Wilcox Mercedes Salvador-Bello and Jennifer Neville.