Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues

Susan Irvine is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London. She studied for her BA (Hons) at Otago, New Zealand, and her DPhil at Oxford. She was Darby Fellow in English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford, before moving to UCL in 1992. She is the author of Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343 (1993) and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E (2004), and co-author (with Malcolm Godden) of The Old English Boethius (2009), which was awarded the ISAS 2011 Best Edition Prize. In 2015 she was awarded an Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

• Abbreviations General Introduction Editorial Procedure and Conventions The Old English Dialogues: Prose and Verse Prefaces; Gregorian Preface; Incipits and Explicits The Old English Pastoral Care: Prose and Verse Prefaces; Gregorian Preface and Epilogue; Verse Epilogue The Old English Boethius (Prose and Prosimetrical Versions): Prose and Verse Prefaces; Prose and Verse Vitae; Epilogue The Old English Soliloquies: Preface; Incipits and Explicits The Laws of Alfred: Preface The Old English Bede: Preface and Epilogue Textual Notes Commentary Glossary and List of Proper Names Bibliography Index

This volume not only provides readers with fundamental information about the Alfredian prologues and epilogues, but also addresses various issues raised by them and shed new light upon these texts, the production and reception of Alfredian works, and the history of Old English frame texts in general. As the first complete edition of these texts, this volume is very useful in exploring them, and provides a firm basis for future studies.