CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

A rich and timely collection which offers many important new analyses of liturgical texts and their relationship to practice and theology.

• Introduction - Helen GittosThe Roman Psalter, its Old English Glosses and the English Benedictine Reform - Mechthild GretschMaking the Liturgy - Susan K RankinRending the Garment and Reading by the Rood: Regularis concordia Rituals for Men and Women - Joyce HillRites for Public Penance in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Sarah HamiltonThe Chrism Mass in Later Anglo-Saxon England - Christopher A JonesThe Veneration of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England - Sarah Larratt KeeferThe Rites and Ministries of the Canons: Liturgical Rubrics to Vernacular Gospels and their Functions in a European Context - Ursula LenkerCross-Referencing Anglo-Saxon Liturgy and Remedies: the Sign of the Cross as Ritual Protection - Karen JollyThe Sign of the Cross: Poetic Performance and Liturgical Practice in the Junius 11 Manuscript - Catherine E. KarkovHow much can Anglo-Saxon Buildings Tell us about Liturgy? - Ritual and Drama in Anglo-Saxon England: the Dangers of the Diachronic Perspective - M. Bradford Bedingfield