List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the Anglo-Saxons: fact and fiction Donald Scragg
1. Victor and victim: a view of the Anglo-Saxon past in Lazamon's Brut Carole Weinberg
2. Kings, constitution and crisis: 'Robert of Gloucester' and the Anglo-Saxon remedy Sarah Mitchell
3. The South English Legendary: Anglo-Saxon saints and national identity Jill Frederick
4. King AElle and the conversion of the English: the development of a legend from Bede to Chaucer John Frankis
5. Saxons versus Danes: the anonymous Edmund Ironside Leah Scragg
6. New times and old stories: Middleton's Hengist Julia Briggs
7. Crushing the convent and the dread Bastille: the Anglo-Saxons, revolution and gender in women's plays of the 1790s Jacqueline Pearson
8. Anglo-Saxon attitudes?: Alfred the Great and the Romantic national epic Lynda Pratt
9. 'Utter indifference?': the Anglo-Saxons in the nineteenth-century novel Andrew Sanders
10. The charge of the Saxon brigade: Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh Edward B. Irving Jr
11. Lady Godiva Daniel Donoghue
12. The undeveloped image: Anglo-Saxon in popular consciousness from Turner to Tolkien T. A. Shippey
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