Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes Patrick Sims-Williams; 2. The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists David N. Dumville; 3. The authenticating voice in Beowulf Stanley B. Greenfield; 4. The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon Rosemary Woolf; 5. Ælfric's use of discourse in some saints' lives Ruth Waterhouse; 6. Caesarius of Arles and Old English literature Joseph B. Trahern Jr; 7. A supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon N. R. Ker; 8. The probable derivation of most of the illustrations in Junius II from an illustrated Old Saxon Genesis Barbara Raw; 9. The palaeography of the Parker manuscript of the Chronicle, laws and Sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and tenth centuries M. B. Parkes; 10. Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage Stewart Lyon; 11. Beginnings continued: a decade of studies of Old English prose Milton McC. Gatch; 12. Bibliography for 1975 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair; Index to volumes 1–5.

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Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume of Anglo-Saxon England.