Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Editorial conventions -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Gloss in Context -- 'A Good Woman's Son': Aspects of Aldred's Agenda in Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels -- Aldred: Glossator and Book Historian -- The Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Benedictine Reform: Was Aldred Trained in the Southumbrian Glossing Tradition? -- Maxims in Aldred's Marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels -- The Shape of Things to Come? Variation and Intervention in Aldred's Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels -- Part II: The Language of the Gloss -- At the Forefront of Linguistic Change: The Noun Phrase Morphology of the Lindisfarne Gospels -- Identifying the Author(s) of the Lindisfarne Gloss: Linguistic Variation as a Diagnostic for Determining Authorship -- Simplification in Derivational Morphology in the Lindisfarne Gloss -- Dauides sunu vs. filii david: The Genitive in the Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels -- Null Subjects in the Lindisfarne Gospels as Evidence for Syntactic Variation in Old English -- Revisiting the Manuscript of the Lindisfarne Gospels -- Part III: Glossing Practice -- Multiple Glosses with Present Tense Forms of OE beon 'to be' in Aldred's Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels -- A Study of Aldred's Multiple Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels -- The 'Unglossed' Words of the Lindisfarne Glosses -- The Process of Glossing and Glossing as Process: Scholarship and Education in Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 -- Did Owun Really Copy from the Lindisfarne Gospels? Reconsideration of His Source Manuscript(s) -- References -- Index