"...the book will be a solid introduction to Old English poetry for an undergradute or beginning graduate student." M.A. Dalbey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership; 2. Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life; 3. Hall and feasting in Beowulf; 4. Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives; 5. Personal in conflict with communal; 6. The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness; 7. The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry; 8. Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry; 9. Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts; Bibliography; Index.

"...the book will be a solid introduction to Old English poetry for an undergradute or beginning graduate student." M.A. Dalbey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership; 2. Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life; 3. Hall and feasting in Beowulf; 4. Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives; 5. Personal in conflict with communal; 6. The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness; 7. The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry; 8. Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry; 9. Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts; Bibliography; Index.

"...the book will be a solid introduction to Old English poetry for an undergradute or beginning graduate student." M.A. Dalbey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: ideas of community and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership; 2. Hall and city, feasting and drinking: images of communal life; 3. Hall and feasting in Beowulf; 4. Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives; 5. Personal in conflict with communal; 6. The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea, stronghold and wilderness; 7. The dwelling-places of God's people: place and setting in biblical poetry; 8. Places of trial and triumph in hagiographical poetry; 9. Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts; Bibliography; Index.