Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction to Volume I 1
6. Anglo-Saxon Glosses to a Theodorean Poem? 9
7. Between Bede and the Chronicle: London, BL, Cotton Vespasian B. vi, fols. 104-9 47
8. Aldhelm the Theologian 68
9. Aldhelm as Old English Poet: Exodus, Asser, and the Dicta Ælfredi 90
10. Faricius of Arezzo's Life of St Aldhelm 109
11. Patristic Pomegranates, from Ambrose and Apponius to Bede 132
12. The Metrical Art(s) of Bede 150
13. King Ceadwalla's Roman Epitaph 171
14. A Recension of Boniface's Letter to Eadburg about the Monk of Wenlock's Vision 194
15. Alcuin as Exile and Educator: 'uir undecumque doctissimus 215
16. 'Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?' 237
17. The Sermons Attributed to Candidus Wizo 260
18. Enigma Variations: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Tradition 284
19. English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century 305
20. Alfred, Asser, and Boethius 326
21. Six Cruces in Beowulf (Lines 31,83,404,445,1198, and 3074-5) 349
22. The Role of Grendel's Arm in Feud, Law, and the Narrative Strategy of Beowulf 368
23. The Merov(ich)ingian Again: damnatio memoriae and the usus scholarum 389
24. Three 'Cups' and a Funeral in Beowulf 407
25. Beowulf in the House of Dickens 421
26. Manuscript Index 441
27. General Index 444
28. Index of Glosses in Chapter 1 459
29. Frontmatter2 i
30. Contents v
31. Acknowledgments ix
32. Illustrations xi
33. Abbreviations xiii
34. Introduction to Volume II 1
35. Alea, Tæfl, and Related Games: Vocabulary and Context 9
36. The Sphere of Life and Death: Time, Medicine, and the Visual Imagination 28
37. More Diagrams by Byrhtferth of Ramsey 53
38. The Charter of Lanlawren (Cornwall) 74
39. Anglo-Latin Women Poets 86
40. Contextualized Lexicography 108
41. Latin in the Ascendant: The Interlinear Gloss of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 509 132
42. Alfred's Soliloquies in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii (art. 9g, fols. 50v-51v) 153
43. A Palm Sunday Sermon from Eleventh-Century Salisbury 180
44. A Late Old English Harrowing of Hell Homily from Worcester and Blickling Homily VII 197
45. Worcester Sauce: Malchus in Anglo-Saxon England 212
46. 'Et quis me tanto oneri parem faciet?': Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Life of St Amelberga 232
47. Edith's Choice 253
48. Osbert of Clare and the Vision of Leofric: The Transformation of an Old English Narrative 275
49. The Persecuted Church and the Mysterium Lunae: Cynewulf's Ascension, lines 252b-272 (Christ II, lines 691b-711) 293
50. The Symbolic Use of Job in Ælfric's Homily on Job, Christ II, and the Phoenix 315
51. Ælfric's Colloquy: The Antwerp/ London Version 331
52. The Relation between Old English Alliterative Verse and Ælfric's Alliterative Prose 349
53. Mise en page in Old English Manuscripts and Printed Texts 363
54. Ælfnc's De auguriis and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 178 376
55. Publications of Michael Lapidge (through 2004) 395
56. Doctoral Dissertations Directed 407
57. Manuscript Index 409
58. General Index 413