Selected Publications

Books

Wulfstan Texts and Other Homiletic Materials.  Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 8.  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.  Tempe: Arizona, 2000.  82 pp. booklet and 1,542 microfiche image pages.

Ælfric’s Prefaces.  Durham Medieval Texts 9.  Durham, 1994; corrected reprint 1996.  202 pp.

Edited Book Collections

Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature.  Cambridge: Boydell, 2000.  162 pp <Read Introduction>

Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout. Old English Newsletter, subsidia 32. Western Michigan University: Medieval Institute, 2004. 119 pp.

Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England, co-edited with Benjamin C. Withers. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003. 315 pp. + 45 illus.

Selected Articles

"Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed."  Accepted for publication in Naked Before God, ed. Wilcox and Withers.  That volume accepted by WVU Press.

“Eating People is Wrong: Funny Style in Andreas and Its Analogues.”  Style in Old English, ed. George Brown and Catherine E. Karkov.  [Accepted for publication.]

“The Transmission of Ælfric’s Letter to Sigefyrth and the Mutilation of MS Cotton Vespasian D. xiv.” Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, ed. Elaine M. Treharne and Susan Rosser.  MRTS, forthcoming.  [Accepted for publication.]

"Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture."  A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  50-70.

 “The Wolf on Shepherds: Wulfstan, Bishops, and the Context of the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos.”  Old English Prose: Basic Readings, ed. Paul E. Szarmach.  Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 5.  New York: Garland, 2000.  395-418.

  “The First Laugh: Laughter in Genesis and the Old English Tradition.” The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches, ed. Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers.  Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.  239-69.

 “Introduction” to Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Jonathan Wilcox  Cambridge: Boydell, 2000.  1-10.

“Wulfstan and the Twelfth Century.”  Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, ed. Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.  83-97.

 “The St. Brice’s Day Massacre and Archbishop Wulfstan.”  Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Co-Existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Diane Wolfthal.  Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000.  79-91.

“Teaching Anglo-Saxon Paganism, circa 1000.” Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 5 (1999 for 1998): 96-106. 

 “Variant Texts of an Old English Homily: Vercelli X and Stylistic Readers.”  The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture, ed. Paul E. Szarmach and Joel T. Rosenthal.  Studies in Medieval Culture 40.  Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.  335-51

“Mock-Riddles in Old English: Exeter Riddles 86 and 19.”  Studies in Philology 93 (1996): 180-7.

“The Battle of Maldon and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 979-1016: A Winning Combination.”  Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 3 (1996 for 1995): 31-50.

“Anglo-Saxon Literary Humor: Towards a Taxonomy.”  Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 14 (1994): 9-20.

“Famous Last Words: Ælfric’s Saints Facing Death.”  Essays in Medieval Studies 10 (1994): 1-13. http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol10/wilcox.html

“A Reluctant Translator in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Maccabees.”  Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 2 (1994 for 1993): 1-18.

“King Alfred Speaks: William L’Isle’s Defense of Anglo-Saxon, 1623.”  Old English Newsletter 27.1 (Fall 1993): 42-3. 

“The Dissemination of Wulfstan’s Homilies: the Wulfstan Tradition in Eleventh-Century Vernacular Preaching.”  In England in the Eleventh Century, ed. Carola Hicks.  Harlaxton Medieval Studies 2.  Stamford, Lincs.: Watkins, 1992.  206-23.

Awarded the 1994 Beatrice White Prize by the English Association for an article of exceptional merit on Medieval and Renaissance literature.

Co-authored with E. Paul Durrenberger.  “Humor as a Guide to Social Change: Bandamanna saga and Heroic Values.” In From Saga to Society: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland, ed. Gísli Pálsson.  London: Hisarlik, 1992.  111-23.  [***equal contribution.]

 “Napier’s ‘Wulfstan’ Homilies XL and XLII: Two Anonymous Productions of Winchester?”  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 90 (1991): 1-19.

“Eating Books: the Consumption of Learning in the Old English Poetic Solomon and Saturn.”  ANQ n.s. 4 (1991): 115-18.

“New Solutions to Old English Riddles: Riddles 17 and 53.”  Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 393-409.

Multimedia Projects

“Masters and Slaves: Servants of Desire in the Old English Riddles”  http://www2.Kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/wilcox.htm. 

Posted, summer 2000, as part of an Anglo-Saxon Riddles website in construction.

“The Sources of the Anonymous De temporibus anticristi,” 26 entries, nos. C.B.3.4.34.001-026 [January 1991]; “The Sources of the Anonymous Napier homily xlvi,” 7 entries, nos. C.B.3.4.37.001-007 [June 1988], Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: a Database Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. D.G. Scragg and M. Lapidge, University of Manchester, 1988-.

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