Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Genesis 10–11 xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity 27
7. Chapter Two. Latin Christian Antiquity 50
8. Chapter Three. The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury 78
9. Chapter Four. Bede and Alcuin 96
10. Chapter Five. Alfred the Great and the Literature of His Reign 133
11. Chapter Six. The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries 158
12. Chapter Seven. The Biblical Poems of Junius 11 209
13. Conclusion 237
14. Bibliography 245
15. Index 285