Aspects of Knowledge

Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen’s University, BelfastHugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen’s University, Belfast

• Introduction – Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis Part I: Anthologies of knowledge1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission – László Sándor Chardonnens2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future – Marilina Cesario3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge – Ann BuckleyPart II: Transmission of Christian traditions4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature – Hugh Magennis5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100–1300 – Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West – Denis Renevey7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’: texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman – Kath StevensonPart III: Past and present8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas – Richard North9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook – Emily WingfieldPart IV: Knowledge and materiality10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified ‘book’ – Michelle P. Brown11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English – Donald G. ScraggIndex