Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook

Dedication Table of Contentsii--iv Prefacev--xi Part 1 Anglo-Saxon England: Backgrounds and Beginnings Political history 1--11 Ecclesiastical history 11--21 Linguistic history 21--26 Literary history 26--29 Traditions: oral and literate 29--32 A note on dating Anglo-Saxon texts 33--35 Part 2 The Anglo-Saxon prose tradition The writings of King Alfred the Great 37--38 Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care 38--47 Alfred's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy 47--53 Alfred's translation of St Augustine's Soliloquies 53--58 Alfred's translations of the Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter 59--62 Alfred's preface to Waerferth's translation of Pope Gregory's Dialogues 62--63 The Vercelli Homilies 63--70 The Blickling Homilies 70--76 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 76--83 The Old English Orosius 83--89 Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people 90--100 Apollonious of Tyre 100--106 The Old English Martyrology 106--110 The Life of St Guthlac 110--113 Wonders of the East, Letter of Alexander, Life of St Christopher 113--120 Bald's Leechbook 120--125 The writings of Aelfric of Eynsham125--133Aelfric's Catholic Homilies133--138 Aelfric's Lives of Saints 138--141 Aelfric's Colloquy on the Occupations 141--144 Aelfric as author 145--149 The writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 150--157 Part 3 Anglo-Saxon poetry The Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition 158--170 Caedmon's Hymn 170--176 Bede's Death Song 176--177 The Junius manuscript 177--179 Genesis A 180--182 Genesis B 182--188 Exodus 188--194 Daniel 194--199 Christ and Satan 199--205 The poems of the Vercelli Book 205--207 Andreas 207--217 Fates of the Apostles 218--222 Soul and Body I 222--227 Homiletic Fragment I 227--228 The Dream of the Rood 228--234 Elene 234--240 The poems of the Exeter Book 240--242 The Advent Lyrics (Christ I) 242--245 The Ascension (Christ II) 246--249 Christ in Judgement (Christ III) 250--254 Life of St Guthlac 254--255 Guthlac A 255--258 Guthlac B 258--262 Azarias 263--265 The Phoenix 265--270 Juliana 271--276 The Wanderer 276--281 The Gifts of Men 281--282 Precepts 283--284 The Seafarer 284--287 Vainglory 287--290 Widsid 290--293 Fortunes of Men 293--296 Maxims (I) 296--298 The Order of the World 299--300 The Rhyming Poem 300--303 The Panther, The Whale, The Partridge (The OE Physiologus) 303--306 Soul and Body II 306--307 Deor 307--310 Wulf and Eadwacer 311--313 The Exeter Book Riddles 313--316 The Wife's Lament 317--320 Judgement Day I 320--323 Resignation (A and B) 323--326 The Descent into Hell 326--328 Almsgiving 328--329 Pharaoh 329--330 The Lord's Prayer I 330--331 Homiletic Fragment II 331--332 The Husband's Message 332--335 The Ruin335--338 The poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv 338--339 Beowulf 339--362 Judith 363--369 Poems from various manuscripts The Metres of Boethius 370--377 Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter 377--379 Solomon and Saturn I and II 380--384 The Menologium 385--387 The Rune Poem 387--389 The poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 390--392 The Battle of Brunanburh 392--394 The Battle of Maldon 395--400 The Fight at Finnsburh 401--405 Waldere 405--408 Durham 409--411 Part 4 Critical approaches The alterity of Anglo-Saxon literature 412--416 Source studies 417--420 Manuscript studies 420--421 Grammatical and syntactic studies 421--422 Theoretical perspectives 422--424 Christian 424--426 Germanic legend 426--429 Gender429--432 Psychological 432--435 Oral-traditional 435--443 Part 5 Themes 444--446 Heroism 446--450 The end of the world 450--452 The transitory nature of life 452--453 Fate 453--455 Wisdom and knowledge 455--457 Otherness 457--459 Oral-traditional themes459--461 Bibliography 462--509 Index 510--XXX