The Old English Hexateuch

Rebecca Barnhouse is a professor at Youngstown State University and has published children's literature in addition to medieval scholarship. Benjamin C. Withers is a professor of art history at the University of Kentucky and the director of university's Honor Program.

Manuscript Sigla

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Aspects and Approaches by Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers

The Preface as Admonition: Ælfric's Preface to Genesis by Melinda J. Menzer

Translation by Committee? The “Anonymous” Text of the Old English Hexateuch by Richard Marsden

Shaping the Hexateuch Text for an Anglo-Saxon Audience by Rebecca Barnhouse

Assessing the Liturgical Canticles from the Old English Hexateuch by Sarah Larratt Keefer

Fragmentary Versions of Genesis in Old English Prose: Context and Function by Mary P. Richards

A Program of Illumination in the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch: “Visual Typology”? by David F. Johnson

The Anglo-Saxon Genesis: Text, Illustration, and Audience by Catherine E. Karkov

The First Laugh: Laughter in Genesis and the Old English Tradition by Jonathan Wilcox

Early Modern Users of Claudius B. iv: Robert Talbot and William L'Isle by Timothy Graham

A Sense of Englishness: Claudius B. iv, Colonialism, and the History of Anglo-Saxon Art in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Benjamin C. Withers

Index of Manuscripts

General Index