附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-288) and index.
Prologue : documents and monuments : difference and interdisciplinarity in the study of medieval culture / Allen J. Frantzen -- On reading Eve : Genesis B and the readers' desire / Gillian R. Overing -- Beowulf and the origins of civilization / James W. Earl -- The plot of Piers Plowman and the contradictions of feudalism / Britton J. Harwood -- The language of transgression : body, flesh, and word in mystical discourse / Karma Lochrie -- Texts that speak to readers who hear : Old English poetry and the languages of oral tradition / John Miles Foley -- Working with patristic sources : language and context in Old English homilies / Clare A. Lees -- Medieval textuality and the archaeology of textual culture / Martin Irvine -- Epilogue : De Scientia Interpretandi : oral tradition and the place of other theories in the graduate curriculum / Adam Brooke Davis.