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 40 NUMBER 2 Winter 2007 ISSN 0030-1973 Old English Newsletter Volume 40 Number 2 Winter 2007 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: Robert Butler, Alcorn State University Bibliography: Melinda Menzer, Furman University Editorial Board Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University Antonette diPaolo Healey, Dictionary of Old English David F. 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Copyright © 2007 The University of Tennessee. http://www.oenewsletter.org/ The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2005 Contributors Frances Altvater University of Hartford Dabney Bankert James Madison University Elizabeth Coatsworth Manchester Metropolitan University John David Cormican Utica College Christopher Cain Towson University Craig R. Davis Smith College Glenn Davis St. Cloud State University Jeannette Denton Baylor University Nicole Guenther Discenza University of South Florida Michael Fox University of Alberta John Harkness Augsburg College David F. Johnson Florida State University Richard F. Johnson William Rainey Harper College Dianne Jonas Yale University Eileen A. Joy Southern Illinois U—Edwardsville Stefan Jurasinski State U of New York—Brockport Paul Kershaw University of Virginia Aaron Kleist Biola University Christina Lee University of Nottingham Joseph P. McGowan University of San Diego Robin Norris Carleton University Andrew Rabin University of Louisville Mary K. Ramsey Southeastern Louisiana University Elizabeth Rowe Somerville, MA Phillip G. Rusche University of Nevada, Las Vegas Andrew Scheil University of Minnesota Douglas Simms Southern Illinois U—Edwardsville Emily Thornbury Churchill College, Cambridge M. Jane Toswell University of Western Ontario 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 8 a. History of the Discipline . 8 b. Memorials and Tributes . 14 3 Language 16 a. Lexicon, Glosses . 16 b. Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects . 25 4 Literature 44 a. General and Miscellaneous . 44 b. Individual Poems. 80 c. Beowulf . 95 d. Prose . 114 5 Anglo-Latin and Ecclesiastical Works 141 6 Manuscripts, Illuminations, Charters 156 7 History and Culture 168 a. General Sources and Reference Works . 168 b. Religion and the Church . 169 c. Ecclesiastical Culture . 175 d. Society and the Family . 181 e. Gender and Identity . 182 f. The Economy, Settlement and Landscape . 183 g. Medicine and Science . 187 h. Law, Politics and Warfare . 188 i. Vikings . 192 j. The Norman Conquest and Settlement . 192 8 Names 202 9 Archaeology, Sculpture, Inscriptions, Numismatics 205 a. Excavations . 205 b. The Anglo-Saxon Church. 208 c. Regional Studies and Economic Studies. 209 d. Artifacts and Iconography . 214 e. Numismatics . 217 f. Miscellaneous . 220 Abbreviations 222 Foreword In the last issue’s Foreword we welcomed five new reviewers and bid adieu to four. This time we welcome another five and say farewell to three. I won’t trouble you with the math, but the upshot is a net gain in the number of reviewers. For the 2005 issue, the masthead boasts almost thirty names, the largest number of reviewers in the long and distin- guished history of YWOES. Once again we thank Catherine Karkov for her one-year gig in Archaeology, Numismatics, Sculpture for 2004; for 2005 we welcome Christina Lee of the University of Nottingham, who joins veterans Fran Altvater and Betty Coatsworth. David F. Johnson, who started reviewing for the 1995 YWOES, has decided to step down after contributing to ten issues. We will miss his judicious reviews, not to mention his competence in Dutch. In his place Glenn Davis has shifted over from Syntax. And because Mary Blockley has also decided to step down after two years of reviewing (Mary, you go with our thanks), there has been a complete turnover within Team Syntax for 2005. In place of Glenn and Mary we welcome Dianne Jonas of Yale University; the last-minute loss of another reviewer has meant that an unusually large number of items have been deferred until next year, when we hope Section 3b will be fully staffed again. More addition without subtraction: Douglas Simms of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville has joined the review team for Literature: General and Miscellaneous. And Paul Kershaw of the University of Virginia contributes this year to the History and Culture section. Adding numbers to the team of reviewers as we have done over the past few years has formed part of the larger calcu- lus to bring the publication schedule up to date, on the theory of an inverse relation: more reviewers equals less bur- den on each individual, which equals an increased rate of production. But the larger number has also brought with it some logistical difficulties. As with previous two issues, this one contains duplicate reviews. For the editors and reviewers the inadvertent duplications are a relatively minor problem—extra labor is the worst of it—and we let them stand because readers may enjoy the double perspective. The duplicates are marked with a double dagger (‡). At the other extreme, as we add reviewers the division of items within each section becomes more complicated, and misun- derstandings or lapses in communication more frequent; as a result, too many items slip through the cracks and are left to languish in the list of “Works Not Seen” that concludes each section. A more serious difficulty is that as the number of reviewers increases, so does the likelihood that the project will be slowed down by some who, for whatever reason, find it impossible to meet deadlines. We had hoped to publish this volume in the calendar year 2007, which would meet our ideal publication schedule. We came close, and we’re determined not to let our approach to that goal become an asymptotic curve! The contributors to The Year’s Work in Old English Studies are named on the title page, and the authorship of indi- vidual sections is indicated by initials within or at the end of each section. Reviewers work from the OEN bibliography for the year under review, occasionally adding items from the previous year’s list of “Works not seen.” Dissertations, redactions, summaries, and popular works are occasionally omitted, and their absence in no way constitutes negative judgment. Comments and suggestions, as well as review copies of articles and books, may be sent to Daniel Donoghue, Department of English, Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. DD 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 CS3. 6 The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 1. General and Miscellaneous Subjects Research Resources, Print and Electronic and “Old English Phrases.” The TOE is available free of charge online at http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/ A number of research resources of interest to Anglo- oethesaurus/. Saxonists appeared in 2005. Volumes 29 and 30 of Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (Berlin: Pedagogy Walter de Gruyter), edited by Heinrich Beck et al., have gone into a second edition. Volume 29 covers much of Gabriele Knappe has edited a collection of conference the letter S, from Skírnismál to Stiklestad, with entries papers in Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Mediävis- on Spong Hill, Stauch Meadow, and stichic and strophic tik: Standpunkte—Perspektiven—Neue Wege / English verse forms. Volume 30, covering Stil to Tissø, includes Linguistics and Medieval Studies: Positions Perspec- essays on Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Sutton Hoo, Thanet, tives—New Approaches; Proceedings of the Conference and Thetford. in Bamberg, May 21–22, 2004 (Bamberger Beiträge zur Two useful bibliographic items appear every year Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 48 [Frankfurt am Main: with little fanfare but deserve notice as they underscore Peter Lang]). This collection features twenty-five essays the productivity of scholars in our field.