NAKED BEFORE GOD: UNCOVERING THE BODY IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

TABLE OF CONTENTS

v TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations..............................................................................vii List of Abbreviations........................................................................... xi Acknowledgments.............................................................................. xii Forward: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England Benjamin C. Withers, Indiana University South Bend.......................1 Introduction: Medieval Bodies Then and Now: Negotiating Problems of Ambivalence and Paradox Suzanne Lewis, Stanford University ................................................ 15 1. The Wanton Hand: Reading and Reaching Into Grammars and Bodies in Old English Riddle 12 Sarah L. Higley, University of Rochester.......................................... 29 2. The Key to the Body: Unlocking Riddles 42-46 Mercedes Salvador, Universidad de Sevilla ...................................... 60 3. The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law Mary P. Richards, University of Delaware........................................ 97 4. The Sacrificial Synecdoche of Hands, Heads, and Arms in Anglo-Saxon Heroic Story John M. Hill, United States Naval Academy ................................. 116 5. Nudity on the Margins: The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Relationship to Marginal Architectural Sculpture Karen Rose Mathews, University of Washington ........................... 138 6. The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes Susan M. Kim, Illinois State University........................................ 162 Table of Contents vi 7. Exiles from the Kingdom: The Naked and the Damned in Anglo-Saxon Art Catherine E. Karkov, Miami University, Ohio .............................. 181 8. Breasts and Babies: The Maternal Body of Eve in the Junius 11 Genesis Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University.......................................... 221 9. Penitential Nakedness and the Junius 11 Genesis Janet S. Ericksen, University of Minnesota—Morris...................... 257 10. Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa ............................................. 275 Index.................................................................................................. 310 ...