The Cynewulf Reader

Preface of the General Editors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Poet, Canon, Date -- Cynewulf: Canon, Dialect, and Date /R. D. Fulk -- On Dating Cynewulf /Patrick W. Conner -- II. Fates of the Apostles -- Form and Meaning in Cynewulfâs Fates of the Apostles /James L. Boren -- The Fates of the Apostles: Imagery, Structure, and Meaning /Constance B. Hieatt -- Cynewulfâs Traditions about the Apostles in The Fates of the Apostles /J. E. Cross -- III. Christ II -- Manâs Imitation of the Ascension: The Unity of Christ II /Oliver J. H. Grosz -- Cynewulfâs Image of the Ascension /Peter Clemoes -- The Descent-Ascent Motif in Christ II of Cynewulf /George Hardin Brown -- IV. Juliana -- Figural Narrative in Cynewulfâs Juliana /Joseph Wittig -- Cynewulfâs Juliana: A Case at Law /Lenore MacGaffey Abraham -- Juliana: Cynewulfâs Dispeller of Delusion /Donald G. Bzdyl -- V. Elene -- Sapiential Structure and Figural Narrative in the Old English Elene /Thomas D. Hill -- Cynewulfâs Multiple Revelations /Jackson J. Campbell -- Evangelicism as the Informing Principle of Cynewulfâs Elene /Catharine A. Regan -- VI. Signature, Style -- Cynewulfâs Runes in Christ II and Elene /Ralph W. V. Elliott -- Cynewulfâs Runes in Juliana and The Fates of the Apostles /Ralph W. V. Elliott -- The Diction of the Signed Poems of Cynewulf /Robert E. Diamond -- The Art of Cynewulfâs Runic Signatures /Dolores Warwick Frese -- Index.