The forty-fourth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on religious culture, Old English poetry and prose, and Edward the Confessor.

1. The road to Winwœd? Penda's wars against Oswiu of Bernicia, c.642 to c.655 Philip Dunshea; 2. Domino in domino dominorum: Bede and John of Beverley Frederick Biggs; 3. The Preface to the Old English Bede: authorship, transmission and connection with the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List Greg Waite; 4. Old English poetry, verse by verse Eric Weiskott; 5. The Exeter Book Riddles: authorship and transmission Peter Orton; 6. Dynamic intertextuality in the Miracula Nynie episcopi: remembering Arator's Historia apostolica Richard Hillier; 7. Ælfric's apostles Hugh Magennis; 8. The cleansing of the temple in early medieval Northumbria Conor O'Brien; 9. Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization John Baker and Stuart Brookes; 10. The date and authorship of the Vita Ædwardi regis Tom Licence; 11. A hoard from the reign of Cnut from Buckinghamshire: a preliminary report Gareth Williams; 12. A new Agnus Dei / Last Small Cross mule Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith; 13. Affective piety and the practice of penance in late eleventh-century Worcester: the address to the penitent in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 Helen Foxhall Forbes.