In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.

Edited by Rebecca Stephenson and Emily V. Thornbury

1. Introduction

2. Boniface’s Epistolary Prose Style: The Letters to the English

Michael Herren, York University

3. Interpretatio Monastica: Biblical Commentary and the Forging of Monastic Identity in the Early Middle Ages

Scott DeGregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn

4. Æthilwulf poeta

Emily Thornbury, University of California, Berkeley

5. The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon Glosses

Christine Rauer, University of St. Andrews

6. Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester

Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico

7. Saint Who? Building Monastic Identity through Computistical Inquiry in Byrhtferth’s Vita S. Ecgwini

Rebecca Stephenson, University of Louisiana, Monroe
 

8. Hebrew Words and English Identity in Educational Texts of Ælfric and Byrhtferth

Damian Fleming, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

9. Oswald’s uersus retrogradi: A Forerunner of Post-Conquest Trends in Hexameter Composition

Leslie Lockett, The Ohio State University

10. German Imperial Bishops and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture on the Eve of the Conquest: The Cambridge Songs and Leofric’s Exeter Book

Elizabeth M. Tyler, University of York
 

11. Writing Community: Osbern and the Negotiations of Identity in the Miracula S. Dunstani

Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California, Berkeley