ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the information and annotation that Parker on the Web 2.0 provides with regard to the manuscripts Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (CCCC), 23 and 4. It discusses humility and hope with the severed head of superbia. In fact, severed heads and clothing (a form of outer skin) appear in a number of places throughout the manuscript. Severed body parts has become a running theme, helping to unite this manuscript’s two sutured-together parts. CCCC 23 as it comes down to us is not just the tenth- to eleventh-century Prudentius manuscript, it is also the twelfth-century Orosius. In the History, there is the battle between good and evil, vice and virtue, but there is also the battle between a pagan past and a Christian present that begins with the fall of Adam and Eve, the moment at which, according to Augustine, human beings were clothed with their mortal skins.
