An Old English Lexicon Dedicated to Toni Healey

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Abbreviations xv Introduction xv
7. Introduction 1
8. I. Old English Poets and their Word-Craft
9. 1. Beowulf and the Art of Invention 19
10. 2. Juliana 53a Revisited (hætsð hæþenweoh) 37
11. 3. Wounds and Compensation in the Old English Soul and Body Poems 51
12. II. Old English Homiletic Tradition
13. 4. Defining and Redefining: Ælfric’s Access to Gregory’s Homiliae in Evangelia in the Composition of the Catholic Homilies 67
14. 5. Lambeth Homily 4 and the Textual Tradition of the Visio Pauli 80
15. 6. ‘A Vision of Souls’: Charity, Judgment, and the Utility of the Old English Vision of St. Paul 94
16. 7. The Vocabulary of Sin and the Eight Cardinal Sins 110
17. III. Anglo-Saxon Institutions
18. 8. The King (and Queen) and ‘I’: Self-Construction in Some Anglo- Saxon Royal Documents 129
19. 9. Anglo-Saxon Maccabees: Political Theology in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints 143
20. 10. Nunne in Early Old English: Misogyny in its Literary Context 159
21. IV. Lexis of the Quotidian
22. 11. Cingulum est custodiam: Semiotics and the Semantic Range of gyrdels 175
23. 12. Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours 186
24. 13. ‘Revising Hell’: The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England 199
25. V. The Task of the Lexicographer
26. 14. Cryptography and the Lexicographer: Codifying the Code 219
27. 15. Genre and the Dictionary of Old English 229
28. Epilogue: Word-Hord
29. 16. Reading Beowulf with Isidore’s Etymologies 245
30. An Old English Lexicon Dedicated to Toni Healey 260
31. Toni Healey: A Tribute 276
32. List of publications of Antonette diPaolo Healey 279
33. Index 287
34. Tabula Gratulatoria 292