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

Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English and Faculty Scholar at Loyola University Chicago. He has written several books on early English culture and literature, including Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition; Before the Closet: Same Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America", and Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War.

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