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Links Between Landowners and the State,” “The Field of Old English—The Nature of the Language, and Between “Landlordship and Peasant Life” (158) OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER Published for The Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America by The Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville VOLUME 42 NUMBER 1 & 2 2009 ISSN 0030-1973 Old English Newsletter Volume 42 Number 1 & 2 2009 Editor R. M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Associate Editors Year’s Work in Old English Studies: Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University Bibliography: Thomas Hall, University of Notre Dame Contributing Editors Research in Progress: Heide Estes, Monmouth University Conference Abstracts: Dana Oswald, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Bibliography: Melinda Menzer, Furman University Editorial Board Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University Antonette diPaolo Healey, Dictionary of Old English David F. Johnson, Florida State University Catherine Karkov, University of Leeds Ursula Lenker, University of Munich Mary Swan, University of Leeds Assistant to the Editor: Teresa Hooper The Old English Newsletter (ISSN 0030-1973) is published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language As- sociation by the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN, 37996-0430; email [email protected]. The generous support of the Department of English at The University of Tennessee is gratefully acknowledged. Subscriptions: The rate for institutions is $20 US per volume; the rate for individuals is $15 per volume, but in order to reduce administrative costs the editors ask individuals to pay for two volumes at once at the discounted rate of $25. Individual back issues can be ordered for $5 each. All payments must be made in US dollars. A subscription form is online at www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/subscription_form.pdf. Correspondence: General correspondence regarding OEN, including changes of address, should be sent to the Editor; correspondence regarding the Year’s Work, Bibliography, Research in Progress or Abstracts should be sent to the re- spective Associate or Contributing Editors. Editorial addresses appear on the inside back cover. Submissions: OEN is a refereed periodical. Solicited and unsolicited manuscripts (except for independent reports and news items) are reviewed by specialists in anonymous reports. Scholars can assist the work of OEN by sending off- prints of articles, and notices of books or monographs, to the Editor. Material in OEN may be reproduced for noncommercial educational or scientific purposes. All other requests for permission to reprint items from OEN should be addressed to the Editor. Copyright © 2010 The University of Tennessee. www.oenewsletter.org The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2007 Contributors Anthony Adams Brown University Frances Altvater University of Hartford Rachel Anderson Grand Valley State University Daniel Anlezark University of Sydney Dabney Bankert James Madison University Tom Bredehoft West Virginia University John David Cormican Utica College Christopher Cain Towson University Craig R. Davis Smith College Glenn Davis St. Cloud State University Peter Dendle University of Pennsylvania—Mont Alto Nicole Guenther Discenza University of South Florida Michael Fox University of Alberta Eugene Green Boston University John Harkness Augsburg College Richard F. Johnson William Rainey Harper College Stefan Jurasinski State U of New York—Brockport Aaron Kleist Biola University Joseph P. McGowan University of San Diego Zoya Metlitskaya Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Robin Norris Carleton University Andrew Rabin University of Louisville Mary Rambaran-Olm University of Glasgow Mary K. Ramsey Southeastern Louisiana University Elizabeth A. Rowe Somerville, MA Andrew Scheil University of Minnesota Douglas Simms Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville Larry Swain Bemidji State University Jun Terasawa University of Tokyo Elaine Treharne Florida State University Benjamin C. Withers University of Kentucky Editor Daniel Donoghue Harvard University Contents Foreword 5 1 General and Miscellaneous Subjects 6 2 Memorials, Tributes, History of the Discipline 11 a. History of the Discipline . 11 b. Memorials and Tributes . 14 3 Language 17 a. Lexicon, Glosses . 17 b. Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects . 26 4 Literature 46 a. General and Miscellaneous . 46 b. Individual Poems. 65 c. Beowulf . 92 d. Prose . 127 5 Anglo-Latin and Ecclesiastical Works 144 6 Manuscripts, Illuminations, Charters 159 7 History and Culture 169 a. General Sources and Reference Works . 169 b. Religion and the Church . 171 c. Ecclesiastical Culture . 172 d. Gender and Identity . 174 e. The Economy, Settlement and Landscape. 174 f. Magic, Medicine and Science . 174 g. Law, Politics and Warfare . 175 h. Vikings . 179 i. The Norman Conquest and Settlement . 180 8 Names 183 9 Archaeology, Sculpture, Inscriptions, Numismatics 187 a. Excavations . 187 b. The Anglo-Saxon Church. 193 c. Funerary Archaeology and Practices . 193 d. Regional Studies and Economic Studies . 201 e. Artifacts and Iconography . 205 f. Numismatics . 215 g. Miscellaneous. 217 Abbreviations 225 Foreword As medievalists we are familiar with Latin texts that circulated with a spurious attribution to one of the great church authorities such as Augustine or Bede. Whatever the motivation behind their production, the twelve texts that Helmut Gneuss’s Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts categorizes under “pseudo-Augustine,” for example, were received by more than a few Anglo-Saxon clerics as genuine products of the bishop of Hippo. And why shouldn’t they? In this issue of YWOES under section 4d, Prose, for example, you can read about how Ælfric, that most careful advocate of orthodoxy, relied on a pseudo-Augustinian sermon that flirted with Pelagianism. He did so in good faith. In a faintly similar way, the reviewers of this issue of YWOES relied in good faith on a draft bibliography that circu- lated before the final version of the OEN Bibliography for 2007 was completed. It was only after collating the two that we realized the extent to which the two versions differed, and even if no one’s orthodoxy was imperiled by heresy, that difference accounts for some unusual features of this year’s reviews. One of the frustrations was that texts assigned to one section in the draft were assigned to another in the final bibliography. If an archaeologist, for example, writes about the language of Kent in light of the kingdom’s political fortunes, does that item belong under Language, or His- tory, or Archaeology? As it turns out, John Hines’s “Writing of English in Kent” is found under none of these, but instead under section 4a, Literature: General and Miscellaneous, where it is reviewed by Chris Cain of the Language team, because that is where it was originally assigned. From a certain perspective, less involved with the immediate business of categorizing items and writing reviews, we might celebrate the lack of congruence between the two bibli- ographies as a measure of our field’s real and growing interdisciplinarity (as Hines’s career itself attests). Whether cel- ebrated or not, one consequence of the discrepancy is that the initials of reviewers are sprinkled among more sections than is usual. It also means that some items have been reviewed twice (marked by double daggers: ‡‡). The curious can search, as in a scavenger hunt, for these duplicates. Among the various delights of this issue, let me call particular attention to the opening paragraphs of Craig Davis’s review section on Beowulf, where he surveys the attention that Beowulf continues to receive among Anglo-Saxonists and in the larger world of scholarship, arts, and entertainment. As a simple index of his main point, the number of entries on Beowulf is as large as it has ever been and shows no sign of diminishing. The unusually large number of unreviewed items in Syntax is a consequence of a reviewer who failed to follow through and is no reflection on those who with admirable professionalism carried out their responsibilities for this section. With this issue we welcome eight new reviewers to our team: Anthony Adams to Anglo-Latin, Ecclesiastical Works; Daniel Anlezark to Literature: General and Miscellaneous; Jun Terasawa to Language: Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects; and Elaine Treharne to Manuscripts, Illumination, Charters. To History and Culture we welcome Rachel Anderson and Zoya Metlitskaya; and to Archaeology, Sculpture, Inscriptions, Numismatics we welcome Mary Ram- baran-Olds and Larry Swain. We also bid a fond farewell to Christina Lee from Archaeology and to Emily Thornbury from Manuscripts. As always, let me express my deep gratitude for the efforts of the reviewers and especially, this time, for their good humor. I also thank Johanna Rodda for her help with various tasks in editing this issue. DD NOTICE Subscribers are reminded that the Old English Newsletter has returned to its original publishing schedule of two issues a year. Beginning with this volume, OEN will print only the annual Bibliography and the Year’s Work in Old English Studies. Other content—news and announcements, notices of recent publications, annual reports from ongoing projects, abstracts of conference papers, and essays—is available on the OEN website, www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/. YWOES is set in Adobe Minion Pro Medium 10/12, with headings in Myriad Pro 14/18 and special characters drawn from the Unicode fonts Gentium and Junicode. It is produced on an Apple MacBook Pro using Adobe InDesign CS4. 6 The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 1. General and Miscellaneous Subjects a. Teaching Old English Martin (24). Using their philosophical precepts, he argues that we might encourage those students pre- Four essays in a special volume of Studies in Medi- paring to teach English and history “to incorporate eval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) consider the Anglo-Saxon experiences, texts, artifacts, and scholarly status of Anglo-Saxon studies in the liberal arts cur- debates in the materials in front of the students with riculum and propose ways to strengthen it. Mark whom they work…ensuring that such lessons are part LaCelle-Peterson’s essay, “Claiming a Place at the Table: of the files that they take into their teaching careers” Anglo-Saxons in the Liberal Arts Curriculum” (15–29), (26).
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