Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Rebecca Stephenson is a Lecturer in Old and Middle English at University College Dublin. Emily V. Thornbury is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

"As a contribution to the study of the Latin textual culture of earlier medieval England – and especially in emphasizing Latin’s own diversity as it interacts sensitively with time, place, and situation rather than viewing it as a monolithic member of a simple intellectual hierarchy – Rebecca Stephenson and Emily V. Thornbury’s Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature has great value, with each chapter offering insights and several producing real innovations of method or perspective."- Britt Mize, Texas A&M University (Speculum) "While many of these essays have interesting things to say about identity formation, the collection has much to offer beyond that topic to anyone interested in the formal analysis of imitation in Latin."- Carin Ruff, Independent Scholar (Early Medieval Europe)

• 1. Introduction  2. Boniface’s Epistolary Prose Style: The Letters to the EnglishMichael Herren, York University  3. Interpretatio Monastica: Biblical Commentary and the Forging of Monastic Identity in the Early Middle AgesScott DeGregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn  4. Æthilwulf poetaEmily Thornbury, University of California, Berkeley  5. The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon GlossesChristine Rauer, University of St. Andrews  6. Sequences and Intellectual Identity at WinchesterJonathan Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico  7. Saint Who? Building Monastic Identity through Computistical Inquiry in Byrhtferth’s Vita S. EcgwiniRebecca Stephenson, University of Louisiana, Monroe  8. Hebrew Words and English Identity in Educational Texts of Ælfric and ByrhtferthDamian Fleming, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne  9. Oswald’s uersus retrogradi: A Forerunner of Post-Conquest Trends in Hexameter CompositionLeslie Lockett, The Ohio State University  10. German Imperial Bishops and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture on the Eve of the Conquest: The Cambridge Songs and Leofric’s Exeter BookElizabeth M. Tyler, University of York  11. Writing Community: Osbern and the Negotiations of Identity in the Miracula S. DunstaniKatherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California, Berkeley