Part 1. Anglo-Saxon England: backgrounds and beginnings : Political history ; Ecclesiastical history ; Intellectual history ; Linguistic history ; Literary history ; Traditions: oral and literate ; A note on dating Anglo-Saxon texts

Part 2. Anglo-Saxon prose : The writings of King Alfred the Great : Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral care; Alfred's translation of Boethius's Consolation of philosophy; Alfred's translation of St. Augustine's Soliloquies; Alfred's translations of the prose psalms of the Paris Psalter; Alfred's preface to Wærferth's translation of Pope Gregory's Dialogues ; The Vercelli homilies ; The Blickling homilies ; The Anglo-Saxon chronicle ; The Old English Orosius ; Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people ; Apollonius of Tyre ; The Old English martyrology ; The life of St. Guthlac; The wonders of the East, The letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The life of St. Christopher ; Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III ; The writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York ; The writings of Ælfric of Eynsham : Catholic homilies; Lives of saints; Colloquy on the occupations; Ælfric as author

Part 3: Anglo-Saxon poetry : The Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition ; Cædmon's Hymn ; Bede's Death song ; The Junius manuscript : Genesis; Genesis A; Genesis B; Exodus; Daniel; Christ and Satan ; The poems of the Vercelli book : Andreas; Fates of the Apostles; Soul and body I (and II); Homiletic fragment I; The dream of the rood; Elene ; The Exeter book : The Advent lyrics (Christ I); The Ascension (Christ II); Christ in judgement (Christ III); Life of St Guthlac; Guthlac A; Guthlac B; Azarias; The phoenix; Juliana; The wanderer; The gifts of men; Precepts; The seafarer; Vainglory; Widsið; The fortunes of men; Maxims (I); The order of the world; The rhyming poem; The panther, the whale, the partridge (The Old English physiologus); Soul and body II (and I); Deor; Wulf and Eadwacer; The Exeter book riddles; The wife's lament; Judgement day I; Resignation (A and B); The descent into hell; Almsgiving; Pharaoh; The Lord's prayer I; Homiletic fragment II; The husband's message; The ruin ; The poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv : Beowulf; Judith ; Poems from various manuscripts : The metres of Boethius; The metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter; Solomon and Saturn I and II; The Menologium; The Rune poem; The poems of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle; The battle of Brunanburh; The battle of Maldon; The fight at Finnsburh; Waldere; Durham.

Part 4: Critical approaches : The alterity of Anglo-Saxon literature ; Source studies ; Manuscript studies ; Grammatical and syntactic studies ; Theoretical perspectives

Part 5. Themes : Anglo-Saxon thematics ; Heroism ; The end of the world ; The transitory nature of life ; Fate ; Wisdom ; Otherness ; Oral-traditional themes.