Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Who Read the Gospels in Old English? 3
7. Byrhtferth at Work 25
8. An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 45
9. An Ogre’s Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf 59
10. Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature 67
11. Æðelflæd of Mercia: Mise en page 105
12. Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism 127
13. The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated 143
14. Mapelian in Old English Poetry 159
15. Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses 173
16. The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts 187
17. When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book 207
18. Chaucer's English Rhymes: The Romany the Romaunt, and The Book of the Duchess 223
19. Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in The Miller's Tale 243
20. Why the Monk? 261
21. The Real Fulk Fitzwarines Mythical Monster Fights 271
22. Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn 293
23. Backmatter 311