Textual and material culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Subtitle: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures
By: edited by Donald Scragg.
Contributors: Scragg, D. G.
Series: Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies,
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon chronicle.; English philology -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.; Material culture -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Oral tradition -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Anglo-Saxons -- Intellectual life.; Anglo-Saxons -- Material culture.; Manuscripts, English (Old); Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Historiography.; England -- Civilization -- To 1066.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Manuscript layout and the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Janet Bately; title: Scyld Scefing and the dating of Beowulf, again / Audrey Meaney; title: The study of language in Anglo-Saxon England / Helmut Gneuss; title: Textual criticism and the literature of Anglo-Saxon England / Michael Lapidge; title: The search for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet / Roberta Frank; title: Source, method, theory, practice : on reading two Old English verse texts / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; title: The dynamics of literacy in Anglo-Saxon England / George Brown; title: What mean these stones? : some aspects of pre-Norman sculpture in Cheshire and Lancashire / Richard Bailey; title: Translating the tradition : manuscripts, models & methodologies in the composition of Ælfric's Catholic homilies / Joyce Hill; title: Anglo-Saxon smiths and myths / David A. Hinton; title: Toller at school : Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, and the progress of Old English lexicography in the nineteenth century / Peter Baker; title: T. Northcote Toller and the making of the supplement to the Anglo-Saxon dictionary / Dabney Anderson Bankert; title: Items of lexicographical interest in the Toller Collection, John Rylands University Library of Manchester / Alexander Rumble; title: Thomas Northcote Toller : this fearless and self-sacrificing knight of scholarship / Joana Proud.