Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Record of the seventh conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Stanford University, 6–12 August 1995; 2. The blood of Abel and the branches of sin: Genesis A, Maxims I and Aldhelm's Carmen de uirginitate Charles D. Wright; 3. Regula canonicorum or Regula monasterialis uitae? The Rule of Chrodegang and Archbishop Wulfred's reforms at Canterbury Brigitte Langefeld; 4. The originality of the Old English gloss of the Vespasian Psalter and its relation to the gloss of the Junius Psalter Phillip Pulsiano; 5. The Limpsfield Grange disc Elizabeth Okasha and Susan Youngs; 6. Traditions concerning Jamnes and Mambres in Anglo-Saxon England Frederick M. Biggs and Thomas N. Hall; 7. The author of the Fonthill Letter Mark Boynton and Susan Reynolds; 8. Palaces or minsters? Northampton and Cheddar reconsidered John Blair; 9. The advent of poetry: Christ I Edward B. Irving Jr; 10. The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry Richard Gameson; 11. Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) - a double solution? Audrey L. Meaney; 12. An Old English fragment from Westminster Abbey R. I. Page; 13. The glosses on Bede's De temporum ratione attributed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey Michael Gorman; 14. Bibliography for 1995 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 21-25; Index of contents, volumes 1-25.

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