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Dance in Anglo-Saxon England’ International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference 3–7 August 2015 University of Glasgow Abstracts for Papers and Project Reports v.1.0 PAPERS ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Adair, Anya – ‘(Un)Diplomatic Sources, Contested Composition, and the Prologue to the Alfredian Law Code’ ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Banham, Debby – ‘Ymbhwyrft: The Annual Cycle of Food Production in Anglo-Saxon England’ ....... 4 Bayless, Martha – ‘Dance in Anglo-Saxon England’ ............................................................................. 5 Bolotina, Julia – ‘The Broader Relevance of Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts’ .......................................... 6 Brady, Lindy – ‘The Dunsæte Ordinance, the Welsh Frontier, and Marcher Society in Anglo-Saxon England’ ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Cavell, Megan – ‘Everyday Monsters: Adapting Pests for an Anglo-Saxon Audience’ ........................ 8 Cavill, Paul – ‘A Vocabulary of the Everyday’ ...................................................................................... 9 Christie, Edward – ‘Personal Privacy, Polity, and the ‘Secret Singularity’ of the Self: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre and the Encomium Emmae Reginae’ ............................................................... 10 Clark, Amy – ‘More than Meets the Eye: Cultural Color Resonances in Old English Literature’ ....... 10 Clancy, Thomas – ‘Anglo-Saxon Ayrshire?’ ........................................................................................ 11 Coatsworth, Elizabeth – ‘(Soft) Furnishing the Anglo-Saxon House’.................................................. 12 Curran, Colleen – ‘Coping with Script Change in Tenth-Century Cornish Manuscripts’ .................... 13 Edmonds, Fiona – ‘Ǽrgi Place-Names and Cattle in Northern England’ ............................................. 14 Findell, Martin – ‘Pre-Old English from the Ground up’ ..................................................................... 14 Gallagher, Robert – ‘The Occasion and Reception of Latin Poetry in the Reigns of Alfred and Æthelstan’ ........................................................................................................................................ 15 Gilchrist Bruce – ‘Verse as Verse: A Diplomatic Edition of the Boethian metra in Cotton Vespasian D.xiv’ ............................................................................................................................................... 16 Graham-Campbell, James – ‘The Galloway (2014) Viking hoard: Some Preliminary Observations’ . 17 Grossi, Joseph –‘“East Anglia is a Nation” Regional Character and its Viking Impetus’ .................... 18 Harbus, Antonina – ‘The Emotional Life of the Anglo-Saxons’ .......................................................... 19 Hicklin, Alice – ‘Retelling Rebellion: Accounts of the Godwinist Revolt of 1051 and its Impact on Anglo-Saxon England’ .................................................................................................................... 20 Hurley, Mary Kate – ‘Communities of the Page: Translation Effects in Ælfrician Homiletic Manuscripts’ .................................................................................................................................... 21 Izdebska, Daria – ‘Conceptualising ANGER in the Old English Pastoral Care’ ................................... 22 Johnson, David – ‘A Voice in the Margin: Quotidian Spirituality in the Old English Dialogues of Gregory the Great’ ........................................................................................................................... 22 Jolly, Karen – ‘A Cat’s Eye View: Vermin in Anglo-Saxon England’ ................................................ 23 Kay, Christian, and Hough, Carole – ‘A New Perspective on Old English Metaphors’ ...................... 24 Khallieva Boiché, Olga – ‘Positive and Negative Emotions in Anglo-Saxon Personal Names’ .......... 25 Lenker, Ursula – ‘Anglo-Saxon Micro-texts: Language and Communicative Functions’ ................... 26 2 Lester-Makin, Alexandra – ‘Looped Stitch: The Travels and Development of an Embroidery Stitch’ 27 Lockett, Leslie – ‘Cheese Among the Anglo-Saxons: Good to Eat? Good to Think With?’ ............... 27 Milfull, Inge – ‘The Colour of Trees: Revisiting the OED entries ALDER n./1 and WHITTEN n.’ ... 28 Monk, Christopher – ‘The Sex Lives of Women in Anglo-Saxon England: Evaluating Female Perspectives in Latin and Vernacular Penitentials’.......................................................................... 29 O’Brien O’Keeffe, Katherine – ‘Fingers and Eyes, Sight and Touch: Appraising the Senses in Anglo- Saxon England’ ................................................................................................................................ 30 Owen-Crocker, Gale – ‘Dressing the Anglo-Saxons’ ........................................................................... 31 Poole, Kristopher – ‘Exploring the Social and Economic Importance of Chickens in Anglo-Saxon England: An Integrated Approach’ .................................................................................................. 32 Rabin, Andrew – ‘Wulfstan at London’ ................................................................................................ 32 Rauer, Christine – ‘Early Mercian Text Production: Authors, Dialects, and Reputations’ .................. 33 Roberts, Jane – ‘Loss, Replacement and Some Old English Words that Died Out’ ............................. 34 Seiler, Annina – ‘Spelling Variation in Early Old English’ .................................................................. 34 Stancliffe, Clare – ‘Who commissioned the Ruthwell Cross?’ ............................................................. 35 Stephenson, Rebecca – ‘The Body on the Cross: A Conversation between the Dream of the Rood and Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’ ................................................................................................... 35 Voth, Christine – ‘Daily Life of an Anglo-Saxon Scribe: Writing in Early Tenth-Century England’ . 36 Waite, Greg – ‘A New Discovery: John Smith’s Collations for his Edition of the OE Bede (1722)’ .. 37 Wickham-Crowley, Kelley – ‘Fens and Frontiers, or Why Fens Matter in Anglo-Saxon Thought’ .... 38 Zweck, Jordan – ‘Silence in the Riddles’ ............................................................................................. 39 PROJECT REPORTS.............................................................................................................. 40 Biggam, Carole – ‘The Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey’ .................................................................. 40 Kazzazi, Kerstin – ‘Project Report “Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages – RuneS”’ ............... 40 Kopár, Lilla – ‘Project Andvari: A Portal to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe’ . 40 Lee, Christina – The Daily Life of a Doctor: Testing Anglo-Saxon Medicine ..................................... 41 Naismith, Rory – ‘New Developments in Anglo-Saxon Numismatics and Monetary History: Medieval European Coinage and the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles’ .................................................... 42 Timofeeva, Olga, and Honkapohja, Alpo – ‘Medieval Latin from Anglo-Saxon Sources Corpus’ ..... 42 3 PAPERS Adair, Anya – ‘(Un)Diplomatic Sources, Contested Composition, and the Prologue to the Alfredian Law Code’ The Prologue to the Alfredian Law Code remains an understudied text. Such critical analyses as have been undertaken tend to focus on its possible sources, and have resulted in the association of the Prologue with a disparate array of works – religious, diplomatic, and legal. This study reconsiders the proposed sources of the Prologue (none of which is beyond doubt), and seeks thereby greater insight into the pressures and processes of composition in a ninth-century administrative court. It argues that the choice and treatment of the Prologue’s source materials tells us more about the lives of working writers than simply the contents of their library. The letter of Archbishop Fulk to King Alfred regarding the scholar Grimbald (suggested as a source for the legal theory in the Prologue) is an important case-study here. The source itself is complex: its tone has been decried as intensely rude and defended as politely complimentary; its political and theological motivations are intriguingly ambiguous; and it opens a generous window into then-current diplomatic life, and international and Church/State relations. Its alleged use as a source for the Prologue, however, can also tell us a great deal about the intellectual and physical processes by which a major Anglo-Saxon administrative production came about. What did the writer in Alfred’s court think of Fulk? Is the Prologue a defensive response to Frankish accusation, or a complimentary homage to it? Can Fulk’s letter have inspired the composition of the entire Prologue? A reconstruction of the function of the source (and a re-evaluation of modern assumptions about this function) permits the drawing of wider inferences, and implies much about relations between authors, about what Anglo-Saxon writers thought of the texts they handled daily, and about the
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