John Earle (professor)

John Earle (1824–1903) was a British Anglo-Saxon language scholar. He was twice Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.

Earle wrote more than a dozen books and was the author of Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1865),[1] and Anglo-Saxon Literature (1884).[2] Charles Plummer edited Earle's Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel, producing a Revised Text with notes, appendices, and glossary in 1892.[3]

  1. ^ John Earle (1865). Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel: with supplementary extracts from the others. Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ John Earle; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (1884). Anglo-Saxon literature. Pub. under the direction of the Committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  3. ^ John Earle; Charles Plummer (1892). Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: Text, appendices and glossary. Clarendon Press.