Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

List of Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-8

A Personal Recollection

pp 9-16

List of publications of Gale R. Owen Crocker

pp 17-24

Part I - Textile

pp 25-26

1 - The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period

pp 27-42

2 - Opus What? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and Their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800–1400

pp 43-68

3 - Intertextuality in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Form and Function of Dress and Clothing

pp 69-84

4 - Birds of a Feather: Magpies in the Bayeux Tapestry?

pp 85-102

5 - Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes

pp 103-118

Part II - Text

pp 119-120

6 - Text, Textile, Context: Aldhelm and Wordweaving as Metaphor in Old English

pp 121-138

7 - The Weft of War in the Exeter Book Riddles

pp 139-152

8 - Fyrenne Dracan in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

pp 153-170

9 - Old English in the Margins

pp 171-180

Part III - Intertext

pp 181-182

10 - Weaving Words on the Ruthwell Cross

pp 183-198

11 - Fates of the Apostles and Tituli

pp 199-210

12 - Weaving and Interweaving: The Textual Traditions of Two of Ælfric's Supplementary Homilies

pp 211-224

13 - Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv

pp 225-238

14 - Redacting Harold Godwinson: The Vita Haroldi and William of Malmesbury

pp 239-254

Index

pp 255-264

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 265-265