Title: Saints and scholars : new perspectives on Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in honour of Hugh Magennis /
Authors: Magennis, Hugh; McWilliams, Stuart.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer,
Year: 2012
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.; Saints in literature; Scholars in literature.; English literature History and criticism.
Contents: A note on the sensational Old English Life of St. Margaret / Elaine Treharne -- A place to weep : Joseph in the beer-room and Anglo-Saxon gestures of emotion / Jonathan Wilcox -- Aldhelm's choice of saints for his prose De virginitate / Juliet Mullins -- Shepherding the shepherds in the ways of pastoral care : Ælfric and Cambridge University library, MS Gg.3-28 / Robert K. Upchurch -- Consider Lazarus : a context for Vercelli Homily VII / Jane Roberts -- More than a female Joseph : the sources of the late-fifth-cnetury Passio Sanctae Eugeniae / E. Gordon Whatley -- Ælfric, Leofric and In natele plurimorum apostolorum / Joyce Hill -- Stories from the court of King Alfred / Malcolm Godden -- De duodecim Abusiuis, lordship and kingship in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Clayton -- Reluctant appetites : Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards fasting / Christina Lee -- A note on the function of the inscribed strip from the Staffordshire hoard / Elisabeth Okasha -- The sining of the sun in the Twelve nights of Christmas / Marilina Cesario -- Sin and laughter in late Anglo-Saxon England : the case of Old English (h)leahtor / Donald Scragg -- Marginal activity? Post-conquest Old Enlgish readers and their notes / Mary Swan -- Old Enlgish for non-specialists in the nineteent century : a road not taken / Chris Jones -- The beginnings of English poetry : philologica and textual challenges for the creative imagination / John J. Thompson and Ivan Herbison.