- This collection of essays, written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, honors Paul E. Szarmach by bringing together a range of studies relating to Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. The main concern of the volume is the interconnectedness of a variety of texts, including literary, cultural, historical, and ecclesiastical. Organized into three sections that consider scholarly reception, material texts and contexts, and textual transmission, this volume offers fresh scholarship on topics old and new. Contents : Biography of Paul E. Szarmach -- Bibliography of Paul E. Szarmach -- (Re)framing Insular Texts -- Sharing Words with Beowulf / Roberta Frank -- Old English Poetic Compounds: A Latin Perspective / Michael Lapidge -- Working the Boundary or Walking the Line? Late Old English Rhythmical Alliteration / Joseph B. Trahern, Jr. -- Reconstructing The Ruin / Andy Orchard -- Baby on the Stone: Nativity as Sacrifice (The Old English Christ III, 1414-1425) / Thomas D. Hill -- Hnescnys: Weakness of Mind in the Works of AElfric / Rhonda L. McDaniel -- Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Numbers, Hard Data, and Longevity / Joel T. Rosenthal -- Context for Resignation A? / Mechthild Gretsch -- Man "boca gleaw" and His Musings / Jane Roberts -- Engaging Insular Culture -- Reading the Franks Casket: Contexts and Audiences / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Why the Left Hand is Longer (or Shorter) than the Right: Some Irish Analogues for an Etiological Legend in the Homiliary of St. Pere de Chartres / Charles D. Wright -- Picture of Paul in a Parker Manuscript / Frederick M. Biggs -- King and Counselor in the Alfredian Boethius / M. R. Godden -- Beowulf's Foreign Queen and the Politics of Eleventh-Century England / Helen Damico -- Ending on a Giant Theme: The Utrecht and Harley Psalters, and the Pointed-Helmet Coinage of Cnut / Robert L. Schichler -- Parish Guilds and the Production of Old English Literature in the Public Sphere / Patrick W. Conner -- Pictured in the Heart: The Ediths at Wilton / Catherine E. Karkov -- Tracing Textual Transmission -- Armaments of John the Baptist in Blickling Homily 14 and the Exeter Book Descent into Hell / Thomas N. Hall -- Spiritual Combat and the Land of Canaan in Guthlac A / David F. Johnson -- Ciceronianism in Bede and Alcuin / George Hardin Brown -- AElfric and Haymo Revisited / Joyce Hill -- Eugenia Before AElfric: A Preliminary Report on the Transmission of an Early Medieval Legend / E. Gordon Whatley -- Vercelli Homilies and Kent / Donald G. Scragg -- Archbishops, Lords, and Concubines: Words for People and their Word-Formation Patterns in Early English (Epinal-Erfurt Glossary and AElfric's Glossary) -- A Sketch / Hans Sauer -- More Old English from Manuscripts / Helmut Gneuss -- New Old English Texts: The Expanding Corpus of Old English / Jonathan Wilcox.