List of illustrations; 1. Record of the first conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Brussels and Ghent, 22–4 August 1983 Stanley B. Greenfield; 2. The nature of Christianity in Beowulf Edward B. Irving Jr; 3. The state of the Beowulf manuscript 1882–1983 Kevin S. Kiernan; 4. Hidden glosses in manuscripts of Old English poetry Alfred Bammesberger; 5. Spellings of the waldend group - again Angelika Lutz; 6. The Maaseik embroideries Mildred Budny and Dominic Tweddle; 7. From memory to record: musical notations in manuscripts from Exeter Susan Rankin; 8. From 'palace' to 'town': Northampton and urban origins John H. Williams; 9. A new charter of King Edgar Nicholas Brooks, Margaret Gelling and Douglas Johnson; 10. A friwif locbore revisited Christine Fell; 11. Stylistic disjunctions in The Dream of the Road Carol Braun Pasternack; 12. The construction of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius II Barbara C. Raw; 13. Feasts of the virgin in the liturgy of the Anglo-Saxon church Mary Clayton; 14. Variant versions of Old English medical remedies and the compilation of Bald's Leechbook Audrey L. Meaney; 15. Bibliography for 1983 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville and Simon Keynes.