Contributors x
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii
Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1
1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular
Literature 3
Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano
2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11
Joseph P. McGowan
3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal
Culture 50
Jonathan Wilcox
4 Authorship and Anonymity 71
Mary Swan
5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84
Hugh Magennis
6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using
102
Michelle P. Brown
Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119
7 The Germanic Background 121
Patrizia Lendinara
8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135
Susan Irvine
9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151
Joyce Hill
10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170
Carole Hough
11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188
Stephanie Hollis
12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209
Phillip Pulsiano
Part III Genres and Modes 231
13 Religious Prose 233
Roy M. Liuzza
14 Religious Poetry 251
Patrick W. Conner
15 Secular Prose 268
Donald G. Scragg
16 Secular Poetry 281
Fred C. Robinson
17 Anglo-Latin Prose 296
Joseph P. McGowan
Part IV Intertextualities: Sources and Influences 325
18 Biblical and Patristic Learning 327
Thomas Hall
19 The Irish Tradition 345
Charles D. Wright
20 Continental Germanic Influences 375
Rolf Bremmer
21 Scandinavian Relations 388
Robert E. Bjork
Part V Debates and Issues 401
22 English in the Post-Conquest Period 403
Elaine Treharne
23 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
415
Timothy Graham
24 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: England,
Denmark, America 434
J. R. Hall
25 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Germany,
Austria, Switzerland 455
Hans Sauer
26 By the Numbers: Anglo-Saxon Scholarship at the Century’s End
472
Allen Frantzen
27 The New Millennium 496
Nicholas Howe
Selected Further Reading 506
Index 511
Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova
University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English
poetry and prose, and co-edited the Garland Encyclopaedia of
Medieval Scandinavia (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had
completed the first volume of The Old English Psalters (for Toronto
University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin
female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P.
McGowan) the prose texts in the Beowulf-manuscript: work that will
be published posthumously.
Elaine M. Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She is author of The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997), co-editor of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (with Philip Pulsiano), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan), and Readings in Medieval Texts (with David Johnson). She is the author of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) and an editor for Review of English Studies and Literature Compass. She currently works on the ideology of early English texts and their physical contexts.
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