New approaches to a range of Old English texts.

Introduction
Jacqueline Fay, Rebecca Stephenson, and Renée R. Trilling
Part I: Affect and Embodied Cognition in Medieval Didactic Texts
1. Prudentius's Apotheosis and Hamartigenia in Early Medieval England
Leslie Lockett
2. Wonders Never Cease in the Old English Boethius
Nicole Guenther Discenza
3. The Desiring Mind: Embodying Affect in the Old English Pastoral Care
Jennifer A. Lorden
4. Adam and Eve's Hands and Eyes: Covering the Face in the Junius Manuscript
Benjamin A. Saltzman
5. Hawk Taming and Humanity in The Fortunes of Men
Stacy S. Klein
Part II: Sovereignty, Power, and English Textual Identities
6. A Taste for the Law: The Preface to Alfred's Law Code and Hannah Arendt's Reading of Kant
Emily V. Thornbury
7. The Bodies Politic: Conflict, Consent, and English Identity During Godwin's Exile
Jacob Hobson
8. Abraham Wheelock, Agent of Anglicanism, and the Deployment of Old English Texts in the 1643 Edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Timothy Graham
Part III: Acts of Public Record in Making and Sustaining Communities
9. Writings Among the Ruins: The Peterborough Chronicle and the House Archive
Scott T. Smith
10. St. Rumwold and the Social Network of Belief
Miranda Wilcox
11. Holy Women on Display in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
Jonathan Davis-Secord
Overview of Career
Visible Mód: The Scholarship of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Maura Nolan
The Writings of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Bibliography
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria