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Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: ideas ofcommunity and an Anglo-Saxon audience/readership; 2. Hall and city, feastingand drinking: images of communal life; 3. Hall and feasting in Beowulf; 4.Hall and feasting: transformations and alternative perspectives; 5. Personalin conflict with communal; 6. The mythic landscape of Beowulf: sea,stronghold and wilderness; 7. The dwelling-places of God's people: place andsetting in biblical poetry; 8. Places of trial and triumph in hagiographicalpoetry; 9. Conclusion: community and power in later poetic and other texts;Bibliography; Index.