Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction xii
A 1
Aesthetics 1
Agriculture 4
Alcohol 8
Anglo-Saxonism 11
Animals 15
Apocalypse 19
Art 22
Author 26
B 30
Behavior 30
Bible 34
Book 37
Borough 41
C 45
Charters 45
Children 48
Christianity 52
Coinage 56
Cross 59
D 63
Danelaw 63
Death 67
Diet 70
Drama 73
Dreams 77
E 81
Easter 81
Emotions 84
Environment 88
Exile 92
F 96
Fashion 96
Femininity 99
Fishing 103
Franks 106
Friendship 110
G 114
Gender 114
Genre 118
H 122
Hall 122
History 125
Hoard 129
Homeland 133
Homily 136
Hunting 140
I 144
Identity 144
Individuality 148
Ireland 151
L 156
Labor 156
Law 159
Literacy 163
Liturgy 166
M 171
Marriage 171
Masculinity 175
Medicine 178
Mind 182
Music 185
N 190
Nature 190
Norman Conquest 193
O 198
Orality 198
P 202
Paganism 202
Peace 206
Peace-weaver 209
Penance 213
Piety 216
R 221
Race 221
Recreation 224
Reform 228
Rome 231
S 236
Scandinavia 236
Settlement 240
Sex 244
Slavery 247
T 252
Technology 252
Thegn 256
Trade 259
Tradition 263
Translation 266
Trifunctional model 270
V 274
Viking 274
W 278
War 278
Works Cited 283
Index 319

Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English and Faculty Scholar at Loyola University Chicago. He has written several books on early English culture and literature, including Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition; Before the Closet: Same Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America", and Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War.

Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.
* Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today
* Reveals how material culture--the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use--is as important as the history of ideas
* Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies