Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-vii

Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-4

I - Hagiography and the Homiletic Tradition

1 - A Note on the Sensational Old English Life of St Margaret

pp 5-13

2 - A Place to Weep: Joseph in the Beer-Room and Anglo-Saxon Gestures of Emotion

pp 14-32

3 - Aldhelm's Choice of Saints for his Prose De Virginitate

pp 33-53

4 - Shepherding the Shepherds in the Ways of Pastoral Care: Ælfric and Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.3.28

pp 54-74

5 - “Consider Lazarus”: A Context for Vercelli Homily VII

pp 75-86

6 - More than a Female Joseph: The Sources of the Late-Fifth-Century Passio Sanctae Eugeniae

pp 87-111

7 - Ælfric, Leofric and In Natale Plurimorum Apostolorum

pp 112-122

II - Aspects of Community and Consumption

8 - Stories from the Court of King Alfred

pp 123-140

9 - De Duodecim Abusiuis, Lordship and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England

pp 141-163

10 - Reluctant Appetites: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Fasting

pp 164-186

11 - A Note on the Function of the Inscribed Strip from the Staffordshire Hoard

pp 187-194

12 - The Shining of the Sun in the Twelve Nights of Christmas

pp 195-212

13 - Sin and Laughter in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of Old English (h)leahtor

pp 213-223

14 - Marginal Activity? Post-Conquest Old English Readers and their Notes

pp 224-233

III - Reflections on Old English Scholarship

15 - Old English for Non-Specialists in the Nineteenth Century: A Road Not Taken

pp 234-251

16 - The Beginnings of English Poetry: Philological and Textual Challenges for the Creative Imagination

pp 252-260

Poems

The Honey Vision

pp 261-261

The Scholar

pp 262-262

Hugh Magennis: A Bibliography, 1981–2011

pp 263-272

Index

pp 273-279

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 280-280