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A collection of articles in English and German devoted to the study
of books, readers and libraries in medieval England, especially in
the Anglo-Saxon period. The first article surveys the history of
the English library from its beginnings to the suppression of the
monasteries. It is followed by a more detailed examination of the
first four centuries of Anglo-Saxon book collections and by studies
on book production in 9th-century England, as seen in relation to
King Alfred's plans for educational reform and to the intellectual
background of library history in the 10th century. Of two articles
on liturgical books, one sets out the now standard classified list
of liturgical manuscripts written and owned in Anglo-Saxon England;
other essays look at individual manuscripts and the earliest modern
catalogue of surviving books with Old English texts.
Originally published in 1985, fourteen leading specialists in the
field of Anglo-Saxon studies contributed to this substantial
collection of essays in honour of Peter Clemoes, founder of
Anglo-Saxon England, who had recently retired as Elrington and
Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
The book is divided into two complementary parts. The first looks
at the background to Anglo-Saxon learning, in particular at the
composition of monastic and private libraries and the nature of the
individual works available in them. The second examines the
contents and sources of individual texts and reviews the problems
of interpretation and transmission these pose for scholars. Many of
these essays deal with complex and difficult materials like
manuscripts and liturgical sources that are fundamental to the
interpretation of Old English literature and to Anglo-Saxon culture
in general.
Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate
advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England.
Thomas Northcote Toller, of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon
Dictionary, is one of the most influential but least known
Anglo-Saxon scholars of the early twentieth century. The Centre for
Anglo-Saxon Studies at Manchester, where Toller was the first
professor of English Language, has an annual Toller lecture,
delivered by an expert in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies; this
volume offers a selection from these lectures, brought together for
the firsttime, and with supplementary material added by the authors
to bring them up to date. They are complemented by the 2002 Toller
Lecture, Peter Baker's study of Toller, commissioned specially for
this book; and by new examinations ofToller's life and work, and
his influence on the development of Old English lexicography. The
volume is therefore both an epitome of the best scholarship in
Anglo-Saxon studies of the last decade and a half, and a guide for
the modern reader through the major advances in our knowledge of
the life and culture of pre-Conquest England. , Contributors:
RICHARD BAILEY, PETER BAKER, DABNEY ANDERSON BANKERT, JANET BATELY,
GEORGE BROWN, ROBERTA FRANK, HELMUT GNEUSS, JOYCE HILL, DAVID A.
HINTON, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, AUDREY MEANEY, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE,
JOANA PROUD, ALEXANDER RUMBLE.
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every
surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon
England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported
into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge's Bibliographical Handlist not
only details the origins, contents, current location, script, and
decoration of the manuscript, but also provides bibliographic
entries that list facsimiles, editions, linguistic analyses, and
general studies relevant to that manuscript. A general
bibliography, designed to provide full details of author-date
references cited in the individual entries, includes more than
4,000 items. Compiled by two of the field's greatest living
scholars, the Gneuss-Lapidge Bibliographical Handlist stands to
become the most important single-volume research tool to appear in
the field since Greenfield and Robinson's Bibliography of
Publications on Old English Literature. Their achievement in the
present book will endure for many decades and serve as a catalyst
for new research across several disciplines.
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