Anglo-Saxon Culture: an online guide

by graduate students in ENG1001F and ENG6361F

Graduate Department of English, University of Toronto,

selected and edited by Professor Carol E Percy

© the contributors 2000-2005

• CULTURE
• Cooking (Tzung-Lin Fu)
• Feasting (Suzanne Duncan)
• Music (Jessica Lovett)
• The Heroic Ethos: Reality and Representation (Rebecca Tierney-Hynes)
• The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: a general background and source list (Thomas Robjent)

·         CHRISTIANITY

• Translators and Translations of the Bible (Ian Williams)
• Representations of Christ (Eileen Harney)
• Women Saints (Sara Humphreys)
• Martyrs (Vikki Visvis)
• The Future, Fate, and the Millennium (Kristina Kyser)

·         SCHOLARSHIP

• The Anglo-Saxon School Curriculum (Nathalie Foy)
• King Alfred's Literacy Program (Erich Guthrie)
• Manuscript Production and Distribution (Nikki Hessell)
• Anglo-Saxon Study of Language (Sarah Crellin)
• The Study of Latin and Old English at Winchester (Charles Stone)

·         LANGUAGE

• Celtic Influence on Old English (Claire Lovis)
• Christian Terminology in the OE Lexicon before the Christianization Period (Rosa Corradi)
• The Function of the Futhorc Before Christianization and the Introduction of the Roman Alphabet in Old English (Susan Hesemeier)
• Roman Script and the Function of the Futhorc in Anglo-Saxon England (Rohanna Green)
• The Influence of Latin on Old English (Edward Moore)
• Problems with the Language of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Jonathan Newman)

·         LITERATURE

• Riddles (Hazel Brewer)
• BEOWULF
• The Dating of Beowulf (Deepa Chordiya)
• Historical Legend in Beowulf (Jan Purnis)
• Human-like Beasts or Bestial Humans? The Slippery Monsters of Beowulf (Michael Slusser)

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