This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period. Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings. Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies

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