2 The Eadwine Psalter and Twelfth-Century English Vernacular Literary Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Preface xii
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Abbreviations xv
8. The Psalms: a Timeline xvii
9. Introduction: a Case Study of Psalm 50.1–3 in Old and Middle English 1
10. I TRANSLATION
11. 1 Some Anglo-Saxon Psalters and their Glosses 37
12. 2 The Eadwine Psalter and Twelfth-Century English Vernacular Literary Culture 72
13. 3 ‘In eching for the beste’: the Fourteenth-Century English Prose Psalter and the Art of Psalm Translation 108
14. 4 The Wycliffite Psalms 128
15. 5 Rolle’s English Psalter and the Possibilities of Vernacular Scriptural Commentary 149
16. II ADAPTATION
17. 6 Making the Psalter Sing: the Old English Metrical Psalms, Rhythm and Ruminatio 173
18. 7 The Psalms in the Old English Office of Prime 198
19. 8 Psalm Genres in Old English Poetry 218
20. 9 Articulating the Psalms in Middle English Alliterative Poetry: Some Passages of Piers Plowman, St Erkenwald and Pearl 233
21. III VOICE
22. 10 Maidstone’s Psalms and the King’s Speech 255
23. 11 The Songs of the Threshold: Enargeia and the Psalter 271
24. 12 Psalms as Public Interiorities: Eleanor Hull’s Voices 298
25. 13 Vox ecclesiae, vox Christi: the Psalms and Medieval English Ecclesiology 318
26. Index 336