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arly edieval
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Volume 4
2008
 volume 4 - 2008

Contents

Contents 3
Contributors to this volume 5
Committee of management of the Australian Early Medieval Association
2007-2008 6
Panel of expert referees 2007-2008 7
R Natasha Amendola:
Penelope’s Odyssey to ninth-century Ireland 9
Lisa Bailey:
‘No use crying over spilt milk’: the challenge of preaching God’s
justice in fifth- and sixth-century Gaul 19
Chris Bishop:
Fate, virtue and the metaphysical winter in the poetry of Wessex 33
Denise Doyle RSM:
Imagery as exegesis in the Book of Kells 53
Geoffrey D Dunn:
Innocent I and the Illyrian churches on the question of heretical
ordination 65
Verity Fisher:
‘Beowulf and Sutton Hoo syndrome’: integrating text and material
culture in the study of the past 83
Martin Grimmer:
Columban Christian influence in Northumbria, before and after Whitby 99
Rosemary Huisman:
Narrative sociotemporality and complementary gender roles in Anglo-
Saxon society: the relevance of wifmann and wæpnedmann to a plot
summary of the Old English poem Beowulf 125
Bernard Mees:
Fate and malediction in early Celtic tradition 139
Pamela O'Neill:
St Vigeans no 1 and no 1a: a reconsideration 159
Timothy Scott:
It’s all Alamannic to me! Ethnicity as an interpretative tool for
cultural transformation 175

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Kay Smith:
Cultural incorporation: religious conversion in the Old French
chanson de geste 187
Leon Wild:
Óláfr’s raven coin: Old Norse myth in circulation? 201

Review article 213

Genetic evidence and the early medievalist (Lynette Olson) 213

Notes 221
Sisebut’s Life of Saint Desiderius (John R C Martyn) 221
Byzantine scholar honoured (Ann Moffatt) 227

Book Reviews 231

Arnold, Martin, The Vikings: Wolves of War
(reviewed by Lisa Bennett) 231
Clanchy, M T, England and its Rulers: 1066-1300
(reviewed by Kathleen Neal) 233
Fraser, Veronica M, The Songs of Peire Vidal
(reviewed by Tessa Morrison) 233
Hartmann, Sieglinde (ed), Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages: Studies of the
Medieval Environment and its impact on the Human Mind
(reviewed by Pamela O’Neill) 235
Olson, Lynette, The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe
(reviewed by Lisa Bennett) 237
Sauer, Hans and Renate Bauer (ed), Beowulf and Beyond
(reviewed by Chris Bishop) 239
Stacey, Robin Chapman, Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland
(reviewed by Tony Earls) 241
Vanderjagt, Arjo and Klass van Berkel (ed), The Book of Nature in Antiquity and
the Middle Ages
(reviewed by Julianna Grigg) 242

This volume edited by

Pamela O’Neill