Table of Contents

pp 5-6

List of Illustrations

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-24

Metacritical Considerations

pp 25-26

1 - The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies

pp 27-53

2 - Embroidered Narratives

pp 53-82

3 - Remembering the Lady of Mercia

pp 83-114

Affect Theory

pp 115-116

4 - Be a Man, Beowulf: Sentimental Masculinity and the Gentleness ofKings

pp 117-142

5 - Shame, Disgust and Ælfric’s Masculine Performance

pp 143-168

Treatments of Virginity

pp 169-170

6 - The Ornament of Virginity: Aldhelm’s Deuirginitate and the Virtuous Women of the Early EnglishChurch

pp 171-196

7 - Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins: Sexuality, Temporality, andBede’s Æthelthryth

pp 197-222

Medical Discourse

pp 223-224

8 - Monaðgecynd and flewsan: Wanted and Unwanted Monthly Courses inOld English Medical Texts

pp 225-252

9 - Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies: Reassessing the Old EnglishWifgemædla and Witches in LeechbookIII

pp 253-278

10 - Women and “Women’s Medicine” in Early MedievalEngland, from Text to Practice

pp 279-314

Women’s Literacy

pp 315-316

11 - The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim

pp 317-342

12 - A Road Nearly Taken: An Eighth-Century Manuscript in a Woman’sHand and Franco-Saxon Nuns in Early Medieval English IntellectualHistory

pp 343-376

13 - “Historical Accuracy,” Anonymity, and Women’sAuthorship The Case of the Case for Beowulf

pp 377-400

Index

pp 401-408