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SOURCE OF WISDOM: OLD ENGLISH AND EARLY MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDIES IN HONOUR OF THOMAS D. HILL Thomas D. Hill The Fons EDITED BY CHARLES D. WRIGHT, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, AND THOMAS N. HALL Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 978-0-8020-9367-7 Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Source of wisdom : Old English and early medieval Latin studies in honour of Thomas D. Hill / edited by Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall. (Toronto Old English series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8020-9367-7 1. English literature – Old English, ca. 450–1100 – History and criticism. 2. Latin literature, Medieval and modern – England – History and criticism. I. Hill, Thomas D., 1940– II. Wright, Charles D. III. Biggs, Frederick M. IV. Hall, Thomas N. V. Series. PR260.S65 2007 829.09 C2007-904835-8 Frontispiece photo of Thomas Hill courtesy Cornell University Photography University of Toronto Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, in the publication of this book. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xxi Note on Quotations xxiv Part I: Beowulf Beasts of Battle, South and North 3 joseph harris The Fates of Men in Beowulf 26 james h. morey Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript 52 frederick m. biggs Part II: Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Ælfric 63 james w. earl The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood 80 james w. marchand ‘Ðu eart se weallstan’: Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells 90 johanna kramer Remembering in Circles: The Wife’s Lament,Conversatio, and the Community of Memory 113 sachi shimomura vvii CProenfatecnets A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer 130 alice sheppard Part III: Old English Prose Alfred’s Nero 147 paul e. szarmach The ‘Remigian’ Glosses on Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae in Context 168 joseph wittig Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text 201 david f. johnson Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints 217 e. gordon whatley A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform 239 charles d. wright Christ’s Birth through Mary’s Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus 266 thomas n. hall Part IV: Old English beyond the Conquest The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of ‘Holding Court’ in Twelfth-Century England 293 andrew galloway Echoes of Old EnglishAlliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs 311 susan e. deskis Part V: Early Medieval Latin Bede’s Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica? 329 danuta shanzer CoPnretefanctes vviiii Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aeth- ici,ut dicitur,Istri 353 michael w. herren The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century 370 michael w. twomey Appendix 1. Publications of Thomas D. Hill 387 Appendix 2. Dissertations Directed by Thomas D. Hill 399 Contributors 401 Index 403 This page intentionally left blank Preface Source of Wisdom: Thomas D. Hill has been one for all of us, as a scholar, as a teacher and mentor, and as a friend and colleague. Our title, how- ever, is a bibliographical descriptor as well as an honorific. Tom’s OE scholarship has always been about sources, especially the Christian- Latin sources of OE religious poetry and prose, and much of it has focused on what Tom, in his 1967 Cornell dissertation, termed the ‘Sapi- ential Tradition.’1 A student of R.E. Kaske’s (first at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then at Cornell), Tom was trained in the methods of primary-source research in medieval literary scholarship by the man who was to write the book on the subject, or at least one major aspect of it.2 Back in the day when locating a given idea or motif and tracing its development in the ocean of printed patristic and medieval Christian-Latin literature was both a fine art and honest work, no one was more adept than Tom. If it was in the Patrologia, he could find it. And no one was more thrilled by the advent of searchable electronic databases, or quicker to exploit them. Since Tom acquired a personal copy of the CETEDOC Library of Christian-Latin Texts, no crux of the sac- ral variety in OE poetry or Piers Plowman has had a safe place to hide. He gave us fair warning and a chance to compete with his 1992 essay ‘CETEDOC and the Transformation of Anglo-Saxon Studies’ (no. 122; references are to the bibliography of Tom’s publications in appendix 1 at the end of this volume), but it takes more than databases, user’s man- uals, and a head full of cruces that need busting. Tom solves cruces that nobody even realized were cruces, and that is where the art lies now. Tom is the undisputed master of the scholarly note in Old and Middle English studies. In the late 1960s and 1970s he practically owned Notes and Queries, publishing more than twenty concise explications in that
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