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Anglo-Saxon Books and Their Readers

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This collection of essays addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of Helmut Gneuss's Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. .
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The collection opens with Gneuss's Rawlinson Center lecture, delivered just a few months prior to the Handlist's publication. The lecture is followed by essays by Donald Scragg and Thomas N. Hall that examine the scribes, contents, circumstances of production, and intended uses of selected manuscripts from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Four essays follow, by Kees Dekker, Rebecca Brackmann, Aaron J Kleist, and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. investigating the fates of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquaries. The resulting collection addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of the Handlist.
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Price: £17.50
Pages: 198
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: Richard Rawlinson Center Series
Publication Date: 07 January 2008
ISBN: 9781580441377
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

ART / History / General, History of art, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / History / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, History and Archaeology
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Introduction by Thomas N. Hall and Donald Scragg

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A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Origins, Facts, and Problems by Helmut Gneuss

Cotton Tiberius A. iii Scribe 3 and Canterbury Libraries by Donald Scragg

The Development of the Common of Saints in the Early English Version of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary by Thomas N. Hall

Reading the Anglo-Saxon Gospels in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Kees Dekker

Laurence Nowell's Old English Glosses in Howlet's Abcedarium: In the Margins of Early Modern Lexicography by Rebecca Brackmann

Matthew Parker, Old English, and the Defense of Priestly Marriage by Aaron J Kleist

"Mine is Bigger Than Yours": The Anglo-Saxon Collections of Johannes de Laet (1581-1649) and Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50) by Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

Contributors

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