"Saints and Scholars: New Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture..." ed. by Stuart McWilliams

Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom.

Authors draw especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception Taken together, they provide a "state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Hagiography and the Homiletic Tradition
1. A Note on the Sensational Old English Life of St Margaret
2. A Place to Weep: Joseph in the Beer-Room and Anglo-Saxon Gestures of Emotion
3. Aldhelm's Choice of Saints for his Prose De Virginitate
4. Shepherding the Shepherds in the Ways of Pastoral Care
5. 'Consider Lazarus': A Context for Vercelli Homily VII
6. More than a Female Joseph
7. Ælfric, Leofric and In Natale Plurimorum Apostolorum
II. Aspects of Community and Consumption
8. Stories from the Court of King Alfred
9. De Duodecim Abusiuis, Lordship and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England
10. Reluctant Appetites: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Fasting
11. A Note on the Function of the Inscribed Strip from the Staffordshire Hoard
12. The Shining of the Sun in the Twelve Nights of Christmas
13. Sin and Laughter in Late Anglo-Saxon England
14. Marginal Activity? Post-Conquest Old English Readers and their Notes
III. Reflections on Old English Scholarship
15. Old English for Non-specialists in the Nineteenth Century: A Road not Taken
16. The Beginnings of English Poetry: Philological and Textual Challenges for the Creative Imagination
Poems
D The Honey Vision
ID The Scholar
Hugh Magennis: A Bibliography
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

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