Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries

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by  Jay Paul Gates, Brian T O'Camb

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Remembering the Medieval Present
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019 | doi:10.1163/9789004408333_001
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Explorations in Medieval Culture
General Editor
Larissa Tracy (Longwood University)
Editorial Board
Tina Boyer (Wake Forest University)
Emma Campbell (University of Warwick)
Kelly DeVries (Loyola University Maryland)
David F. Johnson (Florida State University)
Asa Simon Mittman (CSU, Chico)
Thea Tomaini (USC, Los Angeles)
Wendy J. Turner (Augusta University)
David Wacks (University of Oregon)
Renée Ward (University of Lincoln)
VOLUME 11
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Remembering the Medieval
Present
Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past,
10th to 15th Centuries
Edited by
Jay Paul Gates
Brian O’Camb
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Cover illustration: Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, from a thirteenth-century genealogical chronicle of
English Kings. © The British Library Board. (MS Royal 14.B.v, fol. 2).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gates, Jay Paul, editor. | O’Camb, Brian, editor.
Title: Remembering the medieval present : generative uses of England’s
pre-conquest past, 10th to 15th centuries / edited by Jay Paul Gates,
Brian O’Camb.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Explorations in
medieval culture, 2352-0299 ; volume 11 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032904 (print) | LCCN 2019032905 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004395152 (board) | ISBN 9789004408333 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Anglo-Saxons--Historiography. | Civilization,
Anglo-Saxon--Historiography. | Civilization, Medieval--Historiography. |
Middle Ages--Historiography. | Literature,
Medieval--Appreciation--England. | Anglo-Saxons in literature. | Middle
Ages in literature. | Literature and history--Great Britain. | Great
Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Historiography.
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ContentCsontents v
Contents
Acknowledgements VII
List of Figures and Tables VIII
List of Abbreviations IX
List of Contributors x xi
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents 1
Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb
1 The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan 21
Nicole Marafioti
2 Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward “the
Confessor” 51
Erin Michelle Goeres
3 Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-
Saxon Past 87
Jay Paul Gates
4 The Hermitic Topos: “Selling” Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-
Norman, and English Audiences 117
Maren Clegg Hyer
5 Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries 144
Cynthia Turner Camp
6 Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the
Dane 168
Larissa Tracy
7 Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer’s
Man of Law’s Tale 195
Kathleen Smith
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Contents
8 The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early
Contents
Acknowledgments Middle English Verse 215
List of Figures and Tables
Carla María Thomas
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
9 The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of
Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents 1
Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O’Camb Conquest in The Proverbs of Alfred 244
Chapter 1
Brian O’Camb
The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan 21
Nicole Marafioti
Chapter 2
10 The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy 270
Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward “the Confessor” 51
Erin Michelle Goeres Eric Weiskott
Chapter 3
Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past 87
Jay Paul Gates Afterword 289
Chapter 4
Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley
The Hermitic Topos: “Selling” Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English Audiences 117
Maren Clegg Hyer
Chapter 5
Bibliography  295
Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries 144
Cynthia Turner Camp General Index 327
Chapter 6
Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the Dane 168
Larissa Tracy
Chapter 7
Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale 195
Kathleen Smith
Chapter 8
The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early Middle English Verse 215
Carla María Thomas
Chapter 9
The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of Conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred 244
Brian T. O’Camb
Chapter 10
The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy 270
Eric Weiskott
Afterword 289
Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley
Bibliography  295
General Index 327
AcknowAlcekdgneomwelnetdsgments vii
Acknowledgements
The editors wish to thank all of the contributors to this volume for their hard
work and patience as we brought this collection together. While some have
been with the project from its earliest stages at panels we organized on the
post-Conquest reception of the Anglo-Saxon past at Leeds and Kalamazoo in
2014, other contributors signed on to the project in media res. Thanks are due
also to Asa Mittman and Larissa Tracy for their advice and feedback at early
stages of the editorial process, and to Marcella Mulder, our editor at Brill, for
her guidance and patience as we entered the final stages of production.
Jay Gates would like to thank Susannah Crowder, Nicole Marafioti, Kathleen
Smith, Karl Steel, and Charlotte Thurston for reading various pieces of this vol-
ume in draft. Jay also owes Brian O’Camb significant thanks for his attentive
reading and patience as we produced this volume.
Besides Jay and the authors, Brian O’Camb wishes to thank Indiana Univer-
sity for financial support in the form of a New Frontiers Exploratory Travel
grant, a Grant-in-Aid of Research, and a Mid-Career Faculty Fellowship for
Research enabled him to present, research, write, and revise portions of the
introduction and chapter nine of this book. A research sabbatical from IU
Northwest and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, af-
forded him time complete the introduction and numerous editorial tasks as a
long-term fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. There he benefited from
the advice and guidance of other scholars, especially Carmen Hsu and Anne
Koenig.
viii List of Figures and Tables List Of Figures And Tables
Figures and Tables
Figures
0.1 The Coronation and Death of Mary. © The British Library Board. (MS Add. 49598,
fol. 102v) 17
4.1 A late twelfth to early thirteenth-century illustration of Guthlac’s arrival at Croy-
land from the “Guthlac Roll.” © The British Library Board. (London, British Li-
brary, Harley Roll Y.6, Roundel 4) 139
4.2 A late twelfth to early thirteenth-century illustration of St Bartholomew with
Guthlac in battle with demons at a liminal space, the gates of hell from the
“Guthlac Roll.” © The British Library Board. (London, British Library, Harley Roll
Y.6, Roundel 8) 139
Tables
3.1 Genealogy of Henry II 94
8.1 Modified stemma of Poema Morale  224
8.2 List of Wulfstan manuscripts containing the kinship trope 234
8.3 Five manuscripts with anonymous homilies that use the kinship trope 238
8.4 Contents of London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487 240
8.5 Contents of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.14.52 241
8.6 Contents of London, BL, MS Egerton 613 241
8.7 Contents of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 4 242
8.8 Contents of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29, Part II 242
8.9 Contents of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 123 243
AbbreviLaitsito nosf Abbreviations ix
Abbreviations
ASC A, ed. Bately Janet M. Bately, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
A Collaborative Edition. Volume 3, MS A (Cambridge,
1986).
ASC B, ed. Taylor Simon Taylor, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
A Collaborative Edition,Volume 4, MS B (Cambridge,
1983).
ASC C, ed. O’Brien O’Keeffe Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, ed., The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition.Volume 5, MS C
(Cambridge, 2001).
ASC D, ed. Cubbin G. P. Cubbin, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
A Collaborative Edition.Volume 6, MS D (Cambridge,
1996).
ASC E, ed. Irvine Susan Irvine, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
A Collaborative Edition.Volume 7, MS E (Cambridge,
2004).
ASE Anglo-Saxon England (journal)
BL British Library
DIMEV Digital Index of Middle English Verse. Ed. Linne R.
Mooney et al. (University of York, 2010). <www.dimev.
net>
EETS Early English Text Society
EME Early Medieval Europe
HSJ Haskins Society Journal
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology
MED Online Middle English Dictionary Online, now in Middle
English Compendium. Ed. Frances McSparran, et al.
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2000-2018).
<http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-diction
ary/>.
MS manuscript
o.s. original series
PL Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina 195 (1855)
s.a. sub anno (year)
s.v. sub verbo (headword)
TRHS Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
x List of Contributors List Of Contributors
List of Contributors
Cynthia Turner Camp
Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia
Irina Dumitrescu
Professor of English Medieval Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univer-
sität Bonn
Jay Paul Gates
Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Erin Michelle Goeres
Associate Professor of Old Norse Language and Literature, University College
London
Mary Kate Hurley
Assistant Professor of English, Ohio University
Maren Clegg Hyer
Professor of English, Valdosta State University
Nicole Marafioti
Associate Professor of History, Trinity University
Brian O’Camb
Associate Professor of English, Indiana University Northwest
Kathleen Smith
Assistant Professor of English, American University
Carla María Thomas
Assistant Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University
Larissa Tracy
Professor of Medieval Literature, Longwood University
Eric Weiskott
Associate Professor of English, Boston College