In this volume, Catherine Karkov examines the textual linkages and visual stratagems that unify Oxford, Bodleian Library Junius 11, an anthology including the Old English verse Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. Karkov presents the imagery of Junius 11 in the context of eleventh-century learning and proposes a new and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship of text and image, where the images’ performance as a commentary on the text depends on the audience’s access to a “complex and highly learned intertextuality” (6). In doing so she raises the level of discourse both for Junius 11 and for late Anglo-Saxon illumination in general, which has all too often been construed as an illustrative response to texts rather than an informed and broadly referenced commentary on them. Produced in the second half of the tenth century, possibly at Christ Church, Canterbury, Junius 11 contains forty-eight outline drawings illustrating Genesis from the Creation to Abraham and Sarah’s journey into Egypt. Spaces are left for intended drawings in the remainder of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, which were envisioned as a single book. Christ and Satan, ending with the rubric “Finit Liber II. Amen,” was considered separately from the other poems and reserves...