Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures

Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures

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Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England.

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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 first time, 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 of Toller'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.

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JANET M. BATELY Manuscript Layout and the Anglo
Saxon Chronicle AUDREY MEANEY Scyld Scefing and the Dating of Beowulf
Again HELMUT GNEUSS The Study of Language in Anglo
Saxon England MICHAEL LAPIDGE Textual Criticism and the Literature of Anglo
Saxon England ROBERTA FRANK The Search for the Anglo
Saxon Oral Poet KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE Source, Method, Theory, Practice: On Reading Two Old English Verse Texts GEORGE HARDIN BROWN The Dynamics of Literacy in Anglo
Saxon England RICHARD BAILEY 'What mean these stones?': Some Aspects of pre
Norman Sculpture in Cheshire and Lancashire JOYCE HILL Translating the Tradition: Manuscripts, Models and Methodologies in the Composition of oelfric's Catholic Homilies D. A. HINTON Anglo
Saxon Smiths and Myths And contributions on T. Northcote Toller and his work.