Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

List of Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

Note from the Editors

pp viii-viii

Introduction: Feminism and Early English Studies Now

pp 1-20

PART ONE - LITERACY AND MATERIAL CULTURE

pp 21-22

1 - Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood

pp 23-42

2 - Beyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo-Saxon Women’s Graves

pp 43-60

3 - Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba

pp 61-74

4 - Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries

pp 75-94

PART TWO - ENGENDERING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

pp 95-96

5 - A Textbook Stance on Marriage: The Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England

pp 97-112

6 - The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind

pp 113-130

7 - Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints

pp 131-140

8 - Playing with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus

pp 141-158

PART THREE - WOMEN OF THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT

pp 159-160

9 - The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript

pp 161-178

10 - Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith

pp 179-190

11 - Listen to the Woman: Reading Wealhtheow as Stateswoman

pp 191-208

12 - Reading Grendel’s Mother

pp 209-226

PART FOUR - WOMEN AND ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES

pp 227-228

13 - Female Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob

pp 229-260

14 - The First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors

pp 261-276

Select Bibliography

pp 277-282

Index of Manuscripts

pp 283-284

General Index

pp 285-294