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Acknowledgements | ||
Preface | ||
Chronological Table | ||
1 | Perspectives | 1 |
What has Survived | 1 | |
Songs and Scribes | 4 | |
The End of Heathenism | 6 | |
The Languages of Britain | 9 | |
2 | England 449-1066: A Sketch | 17 |
Old English | 19 | |
Conquest | 21 | |
Conversion | 22 | |
Sutton Hoo and Warrior Society | 26 | |
Conversion and Accommodation | 31 | |
Bede's Northumbria | 35 | |
Theodore and a Learned Church | 41 | |
Wessex | 46 | |
The Benedictine Revival | 47 | |
3 | Heroic Poetry Including Beowulf | 51 |
The Heroic Ethos | 51 | |
Germanic Heroic Poetry | 56 | |
Versification | 62 | |
Poetic Diction | 63 | |
Formulaic Composition | 65 | |
The Uses of Poetry | 70 | |
Beowulf | 76 | |
4 | The World's Wonder: Riddles | 91 |
Riddles | 96 | |
Verse Wisdom | 108 | |
5 | Bede and Caedmon | 115 |
The Ecclesiastical History | 120 | |
Caedmon | 126 | |
6 | The Poetic Elegies | 139 |
Wanderer and Seafarer | 140 | |
Other Elegies | 155 | |
7 | Alfred and Old English Prose | 165 |
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | 172 | |
Books Most Needful | 180 | |
8 | Verse of the Christian Establishment | 193 |
Saints' Lives: Andreas | 198 | |
Elene | 203 | |
Christ | 208 | |
The Dream of the Road | 216 | |
9 | The Benedictine Revival | 229 |
Aelfric's Colloquy | 237 | |
Aelfric's Homilies | 245 | |
Wulfstan | 252 | |
Verse of the Tenth Century | 255 | |
The Battle of Maldon | 263 | |
10 | Afterwards | 273 |
Old and Middle | 274 | |
Late Prose | 279 | |
App | A Note on Deor | 285 |
Notes on the Plates | 287 | |
Bibliography and Further Reading | 293 |
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