Who Read the Gospels in Old English? - Roy Michael Liuzza -- - Byrhtferth at Work - Michael Lapidge -- - An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 - Daniel Donoghue -- - An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf - Michiko Ogura -- - Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature - Eric Gerald Stanley -- - Aeoelflaed of Mercia: Mise en page - Paul E. Szarmach -- - Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism - Helmut Gneuss -- - The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated - Bruce Mitchell -- - Mapelian in Old English Poetry - Matti Rissanen -- - Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses - Mary E. Blockley -- - The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts - Peter S. Baker
"With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philology to literary criticism, the essays represent a variety of perspectives in Old and Middle English scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.