Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage

ISBN-13: 9781138607804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 338 str.

Phillip Pulsiano; Elaine M. Treharne

Opis

First published in 1998, this volume combines the use of novel techniques such as digital image processing with the best current practice in textual and iconographic study to broaden the scope and applicability of manuscript studies,making an irresistible case for a number of fundamental revisions in our understanding of the culture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England.

Recenzje

'...this is a volume from which one will learn much; and which, moreover, well illustrates the fruitfulness of different approaches to manuscript studies.' Notes and Queries

Spis treści

1. Gloss and Illustration: Two Means to the Same End? Gernot R. Wieland, University of British Columbia. 2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57 and its Anglo-Saxon Users. Timothy Graham, Medieval Institute, University of Western Michigan. 3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162. D.G. Scragg, University of Manchester. 4. The Prefatory Matter of London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. xviii. Phillip Pulsiano, Villanova University. 5. The Conybeare-Madden Collation of Thorkelin’s Beowulf. Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky. 6. Reading the C-Text: The After-Lives of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. i. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of Notre Dame. 7. Lay Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and the Development of the Chirograph. Kathryn A. Lowe, University of Glasgow. 8. Memorialised Readings: Manuscript Evidence for Old English Homily Composition. Mary Swan, University of Leeds. 9. An Episode in the Medieval Afterlife of the Caligula Troper. E.C. Teviotdate, J. Paul Getty Museum. 10. The Dates and Origins of Three Twelfth-Century Old English Manuscripts. Elaine M. Treharne, University of Leicester. 11. The Ghost of Asser. Andrew Prescott, The British Library.

O autorze

Phillip Pulsiano, Elaine M. Treharne