Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Order and Interlace: the Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book 11
7. 2 Sites of Economy: Power and Reckoning in the Poetic Epitaphs of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 44
8. 3 ‘Absens ero … presens ero’: Writing the Absent Patron 80
9. 4 Power and Performance: Authors and Patrons in late Anglo-Saxon Texts 112
10. 5 Remembering Anglo-Saxon Patronage: the Libellus Æthelwoldi Episcopi and its Contexts 145
11. Afterword 171
12. Bibliography 175
13. Index 187