Anglo-Saxon Keywords

Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today Reveals how material culture the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use is as important as the history of ideas Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies

Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries thatreveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and thecentral concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and materialculture.* Reveals important links between central concepts of theAnglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today* Reveals how material culture--the history of labormedicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, landuse--is as important as the history of ideas* Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with manydisciplines inside and outside of medieval studies

Acknowledgments ixAbbreviations xIntroduction xiiA 1Aesthetics 1Agriculture 4Alcohol 8Anglo-Saxonism 11Animals 15Apocalypse 19Art 22Author 26B 30Behavior 30Bible 34Book 37Borough 41C 45Charters 45Children 48Christianity 52Coinage 56Cross 59D 63Danelaw 63Death 67Diet 70Drama 73Dreams 77E 81Easter 81Emotions 84Environment 88Exile 92F 96Fashion 96Femininity 99Fishing 103Franks 106Friendship 110G 114Gender 114Genre 118H 122Hall 122History 125Hoard 129Homeland 133Homily 136Hunting 140I 144Identity 144Individuality 148Ireland 151L 156Labor 156Law 159Literacy 163Liturgy 166M 171Marriage 171Masculinity 175Medicine 178Mind 182Music 185N 190Nature 190Norman Conquest 193O 198Orality 198P 202Paganism 202Peace 206Peace-weaver 209Penance 213Piety 216R 221Race 221Recreation 224Reform 228Rome 231S 236Scandinavia 236Settlement 240Sex 244Slavery 247T 252Technology 252Thegn 256Trade 259Tradition 263Translation 266Trifunctional model 270V 274Viking 274W 278War 278Works Cited 283Index 319