Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print. By Martin K. Foys. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xiv + 275; 20 illustrations. $59.95.

In the quarter century since the introduction of the personal computer, our world, including how we interact with it, has been unrecognizably transformed. Few academic libraries now use the formerly ubiquitous card catalogues; email is the most common form of written communication; and our students take it for granted that most of their research materials will be available in electronic rather than paper format. Such paradigmatic shifts have meant that we are also learning to see the most distant pasts in new ways. Virtually Anglo-Saxon is therefore a timely discussion of not only how some of these new ways of seeing (new media, virtual reality, hyper-text, and cyberspace) allow us to view Anglo-Saxon texts and artifacts in a new way, but also how seeing them in a new (and at times alien) light opens them up in entirely unexpected and enriching ways.