Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction xi
5. Abbreviations xxxvii
6. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England 1
7. Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word 23
8. The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity Before the Norman Conquest 51
9. Orality and the Developing Text of Caedmon’s Hymn 79
10. Reading Cædmon’s “Hymn” with Someone Else’s Glosses 103
11. Birthing Bishops and Fathering Poets: Bede, Hild, and the Relations of Cultural Production 125
12. Kinship and Lordship in Early Medieval England: The Story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard 157
13. The Thematic Structure of the Sermo Lupi 182
14. Social Idealism in Ælfric’s Colloquy 204
15. The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry 215
16. Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught 236
17. The Editing of Old English Poetic Texts: Questions of Style 271
18. Anglo-Saxons on the Mind 284
19. Sundor æt Rune: The Voluntary Exile of The Wanderer 315
20. From Plaint to Praise: Language as Cure in “The Wanderer” 328
21. The Form and Structure of The Seafarer 353
22. En/closed Subjects: The Wife’s Lament and the Culture of Early Medieval Female Monasticism 381
23. The Devotional Context of the Cross Before a.d. 1000 392
24. Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood 404
25. God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon 425
26. Maldon and Mythopoesis 445
27. Contributors 475
28. Index 477