Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xi

Preface

pp xii-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction A Case Study of Psalm 50.13 in Old and Middle English

pp 1-34

I - Translation

pp 35-36

1 - Some Anglo-Saxon Psalters and their Glosses

pp 37-71

2 - The Eadwine Psalter and Twelfth-Century English Vernacular Literary Culture

pp 72-107

3 - ‘In eching for the beste’: the Fourteenth-Century English Prose Psalter and the Art of Psalm Translation

pp 108-127

4 - The Wycliffite Psalms

pp 128-148

5 - Rolle's English Psalter and the Possibilities of Vernacular Scriptural Commentary

pp 149-170

II - Adaptation

pp 171-172

6 - Making the Psalter Sing: the Old English Metrical Psalms, Rhythm and Ruminatio

pp 173-197

7 - The Psalms in the Old English Office of Prime

pp 198-217

8 - Psalm Genres in Old English Poetry

pp 218-232

9 - Articulating the Psalms in Middle English Alliterative Poetry: Some Passages of Piers Plowman, St Erkenwald and Pearl

pp 233-252

III - Voice

pp 253-254

10 - Maidstone's Psalms and the King's Speech

pp 255-270

11 - The Songs of the Threshold: Enargeia and the Psalter

pp 271-297

12 - Psalms as Public Interiorities: Eleanor Hull's Voices

pp 298-317

13 - Vox ecclesiae, vox Christi: the Psalms and Medieval English Ecclesiology

pp 318-335

Index

pp 336-344