Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xxi
5. Note on Quotations xxiv
6. Part I: Beowulf
7. Beasts of Battle, South and North 3
8. The Fates of Men in Beowulf 26
9. Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript 52
10. Part II: Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry
11. Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Ælfric 63
12. The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood 80
13. ‘Ðu eart se weallstan’: Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells 90
14. Remembering in Circles: The Wife’s Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory 113
15. A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer 130
16. Part III: Old English Prose
17. Alfred’s Nero 147
18. The ‘Remigian’ Glosses on Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae in Context 168
19. Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text 201
20. Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints 217
21. A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform 239
22. Christ’s Birth through Mary’s Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus 266
23. Part IV: Old English beyond the Conquest
24. The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of ‘Holding Court’ in Twelfth-Century England 293
25. Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs 311
26. Part V: Early Medieval Latin
27. Bede’s Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica? 329
28. Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri 353
29. The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century 370
30. Appendix 1. Publications of Thomas D. Hill 387
31. Appendix 2. Dissertations Directed by Thomas D. Hill 399
32. Contributors 401
33. Index 403