Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. List of Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part One: Affect and Embodied Cognition in Medieval Didactic Texts
9. 1. Prudentius’s Apotheosis and Hamartigenia in Early Medieval England 13
10. 2. Wonders Never Cease in the Old English Boethius 34
11. 3. The Desiring Mind: Embodying Affect in the Old English Pastoral Care 54
12. 4. Adam and Eve’s Hands and Eyes: Covering the Face in the Junius Manuscript 70
13. 5. Hawk Taming and Humanity in The Fortunes of Men 107
14. Part Two: Sovereignty, Power, and English Textual Identities
15. 6. A Taste for the Law: The Preface to Alfred’s Law Code and Hannah Arendt’s Reading of Kant 135
16. 7. The Bodies Politic: Conflict, Consent, and English Identity During Godwin’s Exile 150
17. 8. Abraham Wheelock, Agent of Anglicanism, and the Deployment of Old English Texts in the 1643 Edition of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 170
18. Part Three: Acts of Public Record in Making and Sustaining Communities
19. 9. Writings Among the Ruins: The Peterborough Chronicle and the House Archive 207
20. 10. St Rumwold and the Social Network of Belief 225
21. 11. Holy Women on Display in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints 244
22. Overview of Career
23. Visible Mód: The Scholarship of Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe 261
24. The Writings of Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe 281
25. Bibliography 287
26. Index of Manuscripts 315
27. General Index 317
28. Tabula Gratulatoria 327