Introduction : literature in Britain and Ireland to 1150 / Clare A. Lees

Part I. Word, Script and Image

1. Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 / Julia M.H. Smith

2. The art of writing : scripts and scribal production / Julia Crick

3. Art and writing : voice, image, object / Catherine E. Karkov

4. Of Bede's 'five languages and four nations' : the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

5. Insular Latin literature to 900 / Rosalind Love

6. Bede and the northern kingdoms / S.M. Rowley

Part II. Early English Literature

7. Across borders : Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world / Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

8. English literature in the ninth century / Susan Irvine

9. The writing of history in the early Middle Ages : the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in context / Renée R. Trilling ; 10. The literary languages of Old English : words, styles, voices / Joshua Davies

11. Old English poetic form : genre, style, prosody / Haruko Momma

12. Beowulf : a poem in our time / Gillian R. Overing

13. Old English lyrics : a poetics of experience / Kathleen Davis

14. Literature in pieces : female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing / Diane Watt

15. Saintly lives : friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality / L.M.C. Weston

16. Sacred history and Old English religious poetry / Andrew Scheil

17. Performing Christianity : liturgical and devotional writing / Christopher A. Jones

18. Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature / Patricia Dailey

Part III. Latin Learning and the Literary Vernaculars

19. In measure, and number, and weight : writing science / R.M. Liuzza

20. Legal documentation and the practice of English law / Lisi Oliver

21. Latinities, 893-1143 / David Townsend

22. The authority of English, 900-1150 / Elaine Treharne

23. Crossing the language divide : Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature / Russell Poole

24. European literature and eleventh-century England / Thomas O' Donnell, Matthew Townend and Elizabeth M. Tyler

25. Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150 / Thomas Owen Clancy

26. Writing in Welsh to 1150 : (re)creating the past, shaping the future / Sioned Davies.