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Michael James Swanton (born 1939) is a British polymath: historian, linguist, literary critic, translator, archaeological metallurgist and architectural historian specialising in Old English literature and the Anglo-Saxon period. Born a Bow-bells Cockney, Swanton survived ''blitz''-stricken London dockland an epileptic bi-polar depressive. Disadvantaged as a child, he failed 11+ examinations, but was educated successively at South London secondary modern, technical and grammar schools; then student of the University of Durham (elected Chairman of the students' union, and of the Standing Congress of Northern Student Unions) and later of Bath, gaining research degrees in both arts and science and a higher doctorate, D. Litt., Dunelm. He taught English Literature at the University of Manchester, then at Giessen in Germany, Lausanne in Switzerland, and finally Medieval Studies at Exeter, where he also acted as the university's Public Orator for several years. During the 1960s–70s he was Honorary Editor of The Royal Archaeological Institute, and in 1971 founded the well-considered series of Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies (sixty titles to date). In retirement, he is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Studies at Exeter University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries and is reckoned an authority on Anglo-Saxon England. In 2010 in collaboration with Tom Blaen he established The Medieval Press.〔(Michael Swanton ) at medievalpress.com, accessed 15 July 2011〕 Swanton's wide-ranging personal published work includes translations of Beowulf, the ''Gesta Herewardi'' (a life of Hereward the Wake), ''Vitae duorum Offarum'' (''The Lives of Two Offas''), and ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' as well as books on early English literature, art, architecture, and archaeology. == Publications== *1970: ''The Dream of the Rood'' (University of Manchester) ISBN 0-7190-0414-4 (Exeter University) ISBN 085989 224 7 (Liverpool University) ISBN 9780859895033 *1970: Ed. with Knapp, J. and Jevons, F., ''University Perspectives'' (University of Manchester) ISBN 0-7190-0433-0 *1970–76: Ed. ''The Archaeological Journal'', 127-31 (Royal Archaeological Institute) ISBN 978-0-903986-61-8 *1971: ''An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' (University of Exeter) ISBN 978-0-85989-353-4〔(Swanton, Michael James ), at regesta-imperii.de, accessed 15 July 2011〕 (Liverpool University) ISBN 9780859893534 *1971–2008: Gen. Ed. Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies Series (University of Exeter with Chicago University Press) *1973: ''Spearheads of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements'' (London, Royal Archaeological Institute) ISBN 0-903986-01-9 *1974: ''A Corpus of Pagan Anglo-Saxon Spear-Types'' (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 7) ISBN 0-904531-04-X *1975: ''Anglo-Saxon Prose'' (J.M. Dent, London) ISBN 0-460-10809-3 *1975: Ed. ''Studies in Medieval Domestic Architecture'' (London, Royal Archaeological Institute) ISBN 0-903986-04-3 〔 *1975: With Radford, C.A.R., ''Arthurian Sites in the West'' (Exeter: University of Exeter Press) ISBN 0-85989-026-0) (Revised edition, 2002) 〔 *1977: ''Exploring Early Britain'' (EP Publishing, Wakefield) ISBN 0-7158-0472-3 *1978: ''Beowulf'' (University of Manchester) ISBN 0-7190-0716-X 〔 "The most readable, accurate literal translation that has yet appeared" (Anglia). *1978: With Glasscoe, M., ''Medieval Woodwork in Exeter Cathedral'' (Dean and Chapter of Exeter) ISBN 0-9503320-1-1 〔 *1979: ''Roof-bosses and Corbels of Exeter Cathedral'' (Dean and Chapter of Exeter) ISBN 0-9503320-2-X *1981: ''Medieval Art in Britain: a select bibliography'' (London)〔 ISBN 0-907810-00-4 *1982: ''Crisis and Development in Germanic Society 700 – 800: Beowulf and the burden of kingship'' (Goppingen, Kümmerle Verlag) ISBN 3-87452-540-6 〔 *1984: ''Three Lives of the Last Englishmen'' (Garland Library of Medieval Literature, vol. 10, Ser. B) (New York: Garland ISBN 0-8240-9422-0) The life of King Harold Godwinson – The life of Hereward the Wake (repr. Medieval Outlaws, ed. Ohlgren, T., 1998, pp. 12–60) – The life of Bishop Wulfstan. ISBN 0-8240-9422-0 *1986: ''St. Sidwell, an Exeter Legend'' (Exeter, Devon Books), ISBN 0-86114-781-2 *1987: ''English Literature before Chaucer'' (Harlow, Longman), ISBN 0-582-49241-6 *1991: ''Exeter Cathedral, a Celebration''; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (Dean and Chapter of Exeter) ISBN 0-9503320-5-4 *1996: ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' (J.M. Dent, London) ISBN 0-460-87737-2 revised as ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' (Phoenix Press, London)〔 "probably the most important book that will be published this spring" (Irish Times); "another heroic work of scholarship" (Guardian); "supplanting all its predecessors" (Medium Aevum). *1996: ''Opening the Franks Casket'' (University of Leicester) ISBN 0-901507-69-5; transl. as: *1997: ''Le Couvercle du Coffret d'Auzon, Levee'' (Universite de Lausanne) *2002: ''English Poetry before Chaucer'' (University of Exeter) ISBN 0-85989-681-1〔 (Liverpool University) ISBN 9780859896337 *2010: ''The Lives of Two Offas: Vitae Offarum Duorum'' (Crediton: The Medieval Press) ISBN 978-0-9557636-8-7 〔 "accomplished and highly useful ... solid scholarly work" (Journal of English and Germanic Philology). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Swanton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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