Table of Contents:
  • 1. The background books, libraries and learning in Anglo-Saxon England: Whitby as a centre of learning in the seventh century / Peter Hunter Blair
  • Surviving booklists from Anglo-Saxon England / Michael Lapidge
  • Liturgical books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English terminology / Helmut Gneuss
  • King Athelstan's books / Simon Keynes
  • 2. Texts, sources and interpretations: Thoughts on Ephrem, the Syrian in Anglo-Saxon England / Patrick Sims-Williams
  • On the library of the Old English martyrologist / J.E. Cross
  • The orientation system in the Old English Orosius: shifted or not? / Michael Korhammer
  • Anglo-Saxons on the mind / M.R. Godden
  • The homilies of the Blickling manuscript / D.G. Scragg
  • The liturgical background of the Old English Advent lyrics: a reappraisal / Susan Rankin
  • The office in late Anglo-Saxon monasticism / M. MCC. Gatch
  • The judgement of the damned (from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201 and other manuscripts), and the definition of Old English verse / E.G. Stanley
  • Beowulf and the judgement of the righteous / Stanley B. Greenfield
  • Linguistic evidence as a guide to the authorship of Old English verse: a reappraisal, with special reference to Beowulf / Janet Bately.