Old English literature in its manuscript context / edited by Joyce Tally Lionarons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lionarons, Joyce Tally.

Series:

Medieval European studies ; 5.

Medieval European studies ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleography, English--Congresses.

Paleography, English.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Books--Great Britain--History--400-1450--Congresses.

Books.

English literature.

Christian literature, English (Old).

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Great Britain.

History.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Great Britain--Congresses.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature--Congresses.

Christian literature, English (Old)--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context is a collection of essays originally written for an NEH summer seminar conducted by Paul Szarmach and Timothy Graham at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1997. Recognizing the need for Anglo-Saxonists to investigate all assumptions about Old English literary texts, eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, authorship and translation, as well as editorial standards and obligations. Editor Joyce Tally Lionarons has assembled a collection of studies which examine many nearly intractable issues facing the textual scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. This text is essential reading for persons interested in the history of Old English literature.

Contents:

Nostalgia and the Rhetoric of Lack: The Missing Exemplar for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Manuscript 41 / Sharon M. Rowley 11

Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy / Nancy M. Thompson 37

Textual Appropriation and Scribal (Re) Performance in a Composite Homily: The Case for a New Edition of Wulfstan's De Temporibus Anticristi / Joyce Tally Lionarons 67

Multilingual Glosses, Bilingual Text: English, French, and Latin in Three Manuscripts of AElfric's Grammar / Melinda J. Menzer 95

Three Tables of Contents, One Old English Homiliary in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 178 / Paul Acker 121

The Boundaries Between Verse and Prose in Old English Literature / Thomas A. Bredehoft 139

Glastonbury and the Early History of the Exeter Book / Robert M. Butler 173

Parker's Purposes Behind the Manuscripts: Matthew Parker in the Context of his Early Career and Sixteenth-Century Church Reform / Nancy Basler Bjorklund 217.

Notes:

"Collection of essays originally written for an NEH summer seminar"--P. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0937058831

OCLC:

56830580