Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part One - Affect and Embodied Cognition in Medieval Didactic Texts

pp 11-12

1 - Prudentius's Apotheosis and Hamartigenia in Early Medieval England

pp 13-33

2 - Wonders Never Cease in the Old English Boethius

pp 34-53

3 - The Desiring Mind: Embodying Affect in the Old English Pastoral Care

pp 54-69

4 - Adam and Eve's Hands and Eyes: Covering the Face in the Junius Manuscript

pp 70-106

5 - Hawk Taming and Humanity in The Fortunes of Men

pp 107-132

Part Two - Sovereignty, Power, and English Textual Identities

pp 133-134

6 - A Taste for the Law: The Preface to Alfred's Law Code and Hannah Arendt's Reading of Kant

pp 135-149

7 - The Bodies Politic: Conflict, Consent, and English Identity During Godwin's Exile

pp 150-169

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

pp 170-204

Part Three - Acts of Public Record in Making and Sustaining Communities

pp 205-206

9 - Writings Among the Ruins: The Peterborough Chronicle and the House Archive

pp 207-224

10 - St Rumwold and the Social Network of Belief

pp 225-243

11 - Holy Women on Display in Ælfric's Lives of Saints

pp 244-258

Overview Of Career

pp 259-260

Visible Mód: The Scholarship of Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

pp 261-280

The Writings of Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

pp 281-286

Bibliography

pp 287-314

Index of Manuscripts

pp 315-316

General Index

pp 317-326

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 327-327

Anglo-Saxon Studies

pp 328-331