...Stacy S. Klein © by Duke University Press 2003 Reading Queenship in Cynewulf’s Elene Stacy S. Klein Rutgers University...

..., in very different works such as Cynewulf’s Elene. This sacralized and historicized sense of geography has its basis in those Roman texts that were channeled into Anglo-Saxon England through the opening sentences of Bede’s History. The most influential historian of the Angelcynn located his...

... ( Christ II , or The Ascension ) bears Cynewulf's runic signature. 18 While neither Christ I nor II is precisely a translation, both certainly take the words of readily identifiable Latin texts as their point of departure for expansive English poems of devotion. Christ III , on the other hand, has...

... In the extremely conventional and tradition-driven realm of Old English verse, it is unsurprising to see customary imagery of the heroic world deployed to connote joy. Sometimes the heroic world is explicitly associated with the impermanence of the temporal world—Cynewulf, for example, reminds us in Fates...

..., 2012. xxx, 614 pp. $59.95. Cox, Virginia, trans. and ed. Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renais- sance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xvi, 455 pp. $60.00, paper $29.95. [Italian verse texts with same-­ or facing-­page English prose translations.] Cynewulf. The Old English...

.... Christ III was once understood to be part of a very long poem by Cynewulf, but it is now taken as the third stand-alone poem in the Exeter Book codex. See Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints , ed. and trans. Mary Clayton (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013), ix. See also Roy M...

...: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History; Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on his 70th Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xv, 459 pp. $97.00. Bjork, Robert, ed. The Cynewulf Reader. Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 4. New York: Routledge, (1996) 2001. xxv, 367 pp.; 18 illus. Paper...