Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of Contributors vii
3. Abbreviations viii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Hagiography and the Homiletic Tradition
6. 1. A Note on the Sensational Old English Life of St Margaret 5
7. 2. A Place to Weep: Joseph in the Beer-Room and Anglo-Saxon Gestures of Emotion 14
8. 3. Aldhelm’s Choice of Saints for his Prose De Virginitate 33
9. 4. Shepherding the Shepherds in the Ways of Pastoral Care: Ælfric and Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.3.28 54
10. 5. ‘Consider Lazarus’: A Context for Vercelli Homily VII 75
11. 6. More than a Female Joseph: The Sources of the Late-Fifth Century Passio Sanctae Eugeniae 87
12. 7. Ælfric, Leofric and In Natale Plurimorum Apostolorum 112
13. II. Aspects of Community and Consumption
14. 8. Stories from the Court of King Alfred 123
15. 9. De Duodecim Abusiuis, Lordship and Kingship in Anglo Saxon England 141
16. 10. Reluctant Appetites: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Fasting 164
17. 11. A Note on the Function of the Inscribed Strip from the Staffordshire Hoard 187
18. 12 The Shining of the Sun in the Twelve Nights of Christmas 195
19. 13. Sin and Laughter in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of Old English (h)leahtor 213
20. 14. Marginal Activity? Post-Conquest Old English Readers and their Notes 224
21. III. Reflections on Old English Scholarship
22. 15. Old English for Non-Specialists in the Nineteenth Century: A Road Not Taken 234
23. 16. The Beginnings of English Poetry: Philological and Textual Challenges for the Creative Imagination 252
24. Poems
25. The Honey Vision 261
26. The Scholar 262
27. Hugh Magennis: A Bibliography, 1981–2011 263
28. Index 273
29. Tabula Gratulatoria 280