List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Place-names from h
m, distinguished from hamm names, in relation to the settlement of Kent, Surrey and Sussex John McN. Dodgson; 2. The beginning of the year in England, c. 500
900 Kenneth Harrison; 3. Bede and medieval civilization Gerald Bonner; 4. An interim revision of episcopal dates for the province of Canterbury, 850
950: part II Mary Anne O'Donovan; 5. Athelstan 'Half King' and his family Cyril Hart; 6. Some Irish evidence for the date of the Crux coins of Æthelred II Michael Dolley; 7. The round, cap-shaped hats depicted on Jews in BM Cotton Claudius B. iv Ruth Mellinkoff; 8. A rediscovered medieval inscribed ring Elisabeth Okasha; 9. The origin of the Bosworth Psalter P. M. Korhammer; 10. The compilation of the Vercelli Book D. G. Scragg; 11. Portents and events at Christ's birth: comments on Vercelli V and VI and the Old English Martyrology J. E. Cross; 12. An Old English penitential motif M. R. Godden; 13. The cross as Christ's weapon: the influence of heroic literary tradition on The Dream of the Rood Michael D. Cherniss; 14. The thematic significance of enta geweorc and related imagery in The Wanderer P. J. Frankis; 15. The influence of Christian doctrine and exegesis on Old English poetry: an estimate of the current state of scholarship Phillip B. Rollinson; 16. Allegorical, typological or neither? Three short papers on the allegorical approach to Beowulf and a discussion; 17. Bibliography for 1972 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.
