This collection of essays, first published in 2000, aims to
redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of
the recent reworkings of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon
period and their implications for the development of literary
production across time. The essays in the volume constitute recent
work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives,
psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual
manuscripts incorporating palaeographic and orthographic studies;
others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English
texts; and all highlight the need to redefine our attitude to late
recopying. The volume engages with important issues, including the
nature of textual transmission and recomposition and its
relationship to late Old English reader-response; attitudes to
earlier material as evidenced in its recopying and adaptation; and
the character of surviving manuscripts and what these tell us about
the twelfth-century scribes and scriptoria, reading and readers.
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