points to the homilies of Aelfric and handbooks of penance to illustrate that Soul and Body has much in common with the pastoral teachings of the late Anglo-Saxon period (85). As such, early Christian audiences were very familiar with these themes; the imagery would have had strong implications for them (Ferguson 79). See also The Debate Between a Man and his Soul, Egyptian Middle Kingdom text References Sources Anderson, James A. “Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, and The Soul's Address: How and Where the OE Exeter Book Riddles Begin.” The OE Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and Research. (1983): 204–230. Bradley, S.A.J. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. London, UK: Everyman Paperbacks, 1982. Ferguson, Mary Heyward. “The Structure of the Soul’s Address to the Body in OE.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 69 (1970): 72–80. Foys, Martin et al. Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project, Madison, 2019. Frantzen, Allen J. “The Body in Soul and Body I.” Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 76–88. Hill, Thomas D. “Punishment According to the Joints of the Body in the OE Soul and Body.” Notes and Queries. 213 (1968): 409–410 and 214 (1969): 246. Krapp, George P, and Elliot V.K. Dobbie. The Exeter Book. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1936. Lapidge, Michael. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. Moffat, Douglas. The Old English Soul and Body. Wolfeboro, NH: Boydell & Brewer, 1990. Pulsiano, Phillip, and Elaine Treharne. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. Orton, Peter R. “Disunity in the Vercelli Book ‘Soul and Body.’” Neophilologus 63.3 (1979): 450–460. Orton, Peter R. “The OE ‘Soul and Body’: A Further Examination.” Medium Ævum 48 (1979): 173–197. Smetana, Cyril. “Second Thoughts on Soul and Body I.” Mediaeval Studies. 29 (1967): 193–205. External links "Soul and Body I" is edited and annotated to digital images of its manuscript pages in the Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project'': https://oepoetryfacsimile.org "Soul and Body I, Old English" Text "Soul and Body II, Old English" Text "Soul and Body I" Modern English Translation Old English poems