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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. As is appropriate, they 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. The volume also includes contributions from the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. Dr Stuart McWilliams is a Newby Trust Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Ciaran Carson, Mary Clayton, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Malcolm Godden, Chris Jones, Christina Lee, MedbhMcGuckian, Stuart McWilliams, Juliet Mullins, Elisabeth Okasha, Jane Roberts, Donald Scragg, Mary Swan, John Thompson, Elaine Treharne, Robert Upchurch, Gordon Whatley, Jonathan Wilcox 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
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