Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

The writings of Peter Clemoes Part I. The Background: Books, Libraries and Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: 1. Whitby as a centre of learning in the seventh century Peter Hunter Blair 2. Surviving booklists from Anglo-Saxon England Michael Lapidge 3. Liturgical books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English terminology Helmut Gneuss 4. King Athelstan's books Simon Keynes Part II. The Texts: Texts, Sources and Interpretations: 5. Thoughts on Ephrem the Syrian in Anglo-Saxon England Patrick Sims-Williams 6. On the library of the Old English Martyrologist J. E. Cross 7. The orientation system in the Old English Orosius: shifted or not? Michael Korhammer 8. Anglo-Saxons on the mind M. R. Gooden 9. The homilies of the Blickling manuscript D. G. Scragg 10. The liturgical background of the Old English Advent lyrics: a reappraisal Susan Rankin 11. The Office in late Anglo-Saxon monasticism M. McC. Gatch 12. The Judgement of the Damned (from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201 and other manuscripts), and the definition of Old English verse E. G. Stanley 13. Beowulf and the judgement of the righteous Stanley B. Greenfield 14. Linguistic evidence as a guide to the authorship of Old English verse: a reappraisal, with special reference to Beowulf Janet Bately Indexes.