This text explores ideas of community and the relationship of
individuals to communities widely evident in Old English poetry. It
pays particular attention to the context in which major poetic
manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period were received, a time
when concerns about community appear to have been of special
urgency. The text identifies key features of the audience or
readership of Old English poetry in this period, and relates the
interests of these groups of people to themes reflected in the
poetic texts. The author analyzes a wide range of poems and
examines the imagery on which they draw, concentrating particularly
on depictions of hall (including feasting and drinking),
stronghold, city and landscape. In a poetry in which communal
structures are associated typically with male ideals of warriorship
and fellowship, the position and treatment of women is also shown
to merit close consideration.
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