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OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER Published for The Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America by The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University and its Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies Editor: R.M. Liuzza Associate Editors: Daniel Donoghue Thomas Hall VOLUME 39 NUMBER 2 WINTER 2006 ISSN 0030-1973 Old English Newsletter Volume 39 Number 2 Winter 2006 Editor Publisher R. M. Liuzza Paul E. Szarmach Department of English Medieval Institute The University of Tennessee Western Michigan University 301 McClung Tower 1903 W. Michigan Ave. Knoxville, TN 37996-0430 Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432 Associate Editors Year’s Work in Old English Studies Bibliography Daniel Donoghue Thomas Hall Department of English Department of English Harvard University 356 O’Shaughnessy Hall Barker Center / 12 Quincy St. University of Notre Dame Cambridge MA 02138 Notre Dame, IN 46556 Assistant to the Editor: Jonathan Huffstutler Assistant to the Publisher: David Clark Subscriptions: The rate for institutions is $20 US per volume, current and past volumes, except for volumes 1 and 2, which are sold as one. The rate for individuals is $15 US per volume, but in order to reduce administrative costs the editors ask individuals to subscribe for two volumes at one time at the discounted rate of $25. A subscription form is online and may be downloaded from http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/subscription_form.pdf. All payments must be made in US dollars. Individual back issues can be ordered for $5 US; supplies are limited. Correspondence: General correspondence regarding OEN should be addressed to the Editor; correspondence regard- ing the Year’s Work and the annual Bibliography should be sent to the respective Associate Editors. Correspondence regarding business matters and subscriptions should be sent to the Publisher. Submissions: The Old English Newsletter 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 offprints of articles, and notices of books or monographs, to the Editor. OEN is published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association by the Richard Rawlinson Cen- ter for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research at the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. OEN receives no financial support from the MLA; the support of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the Department of English at The University of Tennessee are gratefully acknowledged. Copyright © 2006, The Board of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432 Editorial Office Publishing Office email: [email protected] email: [email protected] fax: 865-974-6926 fax: 269-387-8750 phone: 865-974-6970 phone: 269-387-8832 http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/index.php The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2004 Contributors Frances Altvater University of Hartford Dabney Bankert James Madison University Mary Blockley University of Texas at Austin 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 Eileen A. Joy Southern Illinois U—Edwardsville Stefan Jurasinski State U of New York—Brockport Catherine A. Karkov University of Leeds Aaron Kleist Biola University Joseph P. McGowan University of San Diego Robin Norris Carleton College Andrew Rabin University of Louisville Mary K. Ramsey Georgia State University Elizabeth Rowe Somerville, MA Phillip G. Rusche University of Nevada, Las Vegas Andrew Scheil University of Minnesota 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 a. Cultural History . 6 b. Research Resources, Print and Electronic. 6 c. Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon Studies . 6 d. Reports on Projects . 7 e. Varia . 7 2 Memorials, Tributes, History of the Discipline 9 a. History of the Discipline . 9 b. Memorials and Tributes . 14 3 Language 14 a. Lexicon . 14 b. Phonology. 45 c. Syntax . 54 4 Literature 63 a. General and Miscellaneous . 63 b. Individual Poems. .90 c. Beowulf . 100 d. Prose . 114 5 Anglo-Latin and Ecclesiastical Works 129 a. Celtic Latin . 129 b. Aldhelm and Early Anglo-Latin . 130 c. Bede . 132 d. Alcuin and the Carolingian Period . 134 e. Ninth to Twelfth Centuries . 138 6 Manuscripts, Illuminations, and Charters 141 7 History and Culture 154 a. General Sources and Reference Works . 154 b. Religion and the Church . 155 c. Ecclesiastical Culture . 160 d. Society and the Family . 166 e. Gender and Identity . 168 f. The Economy, Settlement and Landscape . 169 g. Law, Politics and Warfare . 171 h. Vikings . 178 i. The Norman Conquest and Settlement . 179 8 Names 183 9 Archaeology, Numismatics, Sculpture 188 a. Regional Studies and the Economy . 188 b. Excavations . 201 c. Death and Burial . 209 d. Artifacts and Iconography . 213 e. Inscriptions . 219 f. Numismatics . 220 g. Miscellaneous. 221 Abbreviations 226 Foreword With every issue we face the bittersweet task of welcoming newcomers as we say farewell to veteran reviewers. This year is no different: four are leaving, but four are joining (and one returning to) our duguð. Since the 2001 YWOES Genevieve Fisher lived up to the folk-etymology of her nickname “Viva” by helping to revive the Archaeology section. We are fortunate that Catherine Karkov, whom long-time readers will recognize as a mainstay in that section for many years, was able to step in as her replacement for 2004. Catherine managed to produce her usual perceptive reviews even while she was busy moving from Miami University of Ohio to take up a professorship at the University of Leeds. We wish her every success in her new position. Mary Frances Giandrea’s name first appears on the masthead for the 1999 issue, and more recently she has coordi- nated the growing History section, but she has decided that 2003 would be her last issue. In her place, we are delighted to welcome Andrew Rabin of the University of Louisville. Lisi Oliver’s name also first appears on the masthead for the 1999 issue, when she brought her wide-ranging interests to the reviews of Manuscripts. But it is time to say auf Wie- dersehen; Emily Thornbury, who began her collaboration with the 2003 issue, remains, alongside Ben Withers of the University of Kentucky. David Porter’s name first appears on the masthead for the 1998 issue, when he taught at the University of Southern Florida. He later moved to Southern University in Louisiana, where he weathered Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. But he is stepping down from Anglo-Latin, and in his place we welcome Michael Fox of the University of Alberta. Two additional reviewers are joining the team: Dabney Bankert of James Madison University is taking on Memorials, Tributes, History of the Discipline, which split off from the first section starting with the 2001 issue. And Andrew Scheil of the University of Minnesota is bringing his talents to the ever-growing Prose section. We welcome our new reviewers as we bid adieu to the departing ones with our sincere thanks; with any luck, we haven’t seen the last of them. At the same time we are grateful to those who do not come and go but have remained, reliably contributing to their respective sections, such as Craig Davis in Beowulf, John David Cormican in Names, Rich Johnson in General and Miscellaneous Subject, Joe McGowan in Language, and Nicole Guenther Discenza in Prose. They provide the continuity, experience, and professional expertise that sustain this publication just as surely as the energy and enthusiasm of new reviewers enliven it. The annual notice of departures and arrivals as we complete another issue of the Year’s Work offers a moment to pause and consider many things: the good fortune our field enjoys in having such a wealth of talented, accomplished, and generous scholars, both junior and senior, willing to lend their time and ability to this review; the pleasure (and sometimes the challenge) of working with such a large team of reviewers—this issue contains the work of twenty-six contributors—and trying to balance the needs of first-timers with those of more experienced hands; and above all the intensely collaborative nature of this on-going project, especially as we work to bring the publishing schedule up to date. We’re almost there, and it could not have happened without the efforts of dozens of reviewers, past and present. The contributors to The Year’s Work in Old English Studies are named on the title page, and the authorship of individ- ual sections is indicated by initials within or at the end of each section. Contributors 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 Thanks to OEN’s complicated publishing schedule, this issue is also the last to be published by Western Michigan University, completing the transition of publishing operations to the English Department of the University of Ten- nessee, Knoxville. The Editors gratefully recognize the efforts of Patricia Hollahan, Managing Editor at Medieval Institute Publications at WMU, during this transition; without her help and hard work the past year’s worth of OEN would never have made it to press.