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Includes bibliographical references and index
Forward: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England / Benjamin C. Withers -- Introduction: Medieval Bodies Then and Now: Negotiating Problems of Ambivalence and Paradox / Suzanne Lewis -- 1. The Wanton Hand: Reading and Reaching Into Grammars and Bodies in Old English Riddle 12 / Sarah L. Higley -- 2. The Key to the Body: Unlocking Riddles 42-46 / Mercedes Salvador -- 3. The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law / Mary P. Richards -- 4. The Sacrificial Synecdoche of Hands, Heads, and Arms in Anglo-Saxon Heroic Story / John M. Hill -- 5. Nudity on the Margins: The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Relationship to Marginal Architectural Sculpture / Karen Rose Mathews -- 6. The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes / Susan M. Kim -- 7. Exiles from the Kingdom: The Naked and the Damned in Anglo-Saxon Art / Catherine E. Karkov -- 8. Breasts and Babies: The Maternal Body of Eve in the Junius 11 Genesis / Mary Dockray-Miller -- 9. Penitential Nakedness and the Junius 11 Genesis / Janet S. Ericksen -- 10. Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed / Jonathan Wilcox