Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms : cultures and connections / Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors ; with Eleanor Jackson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Breay, Claire, 1968- editor.

Story, Joanna, 1970- editor.

Jackson, Eleanor (Curator of illuminated manuscripts), contributor.

British Library, host institution.

Conference Name:

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Conference) (2018 : British Library)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, English (Old)--Congresses.

Manuscripts, English (Old).

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon--Congresses.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Congresses.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

England.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 242 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color), music ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2021]

Summary:

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war? Together, these manuscripts illuminate extensive intellectual connections as well as widespread scribal and artistic networks that developed within the islands of Britain and Ireland, and further afield across much of early medieval Europe. Using new scientific methods, as well as textual criticism, art historical analysis and historical research, the essays in this richly illustrated volume, written by leading scholars, present innovative research that focuses on manuscripts that were copied, decorated or used in the early English kingdoms and their neighbours, across a 500-year period from the advent of Christianity among the English, c.600, to the age of conquest in the eleventh century.

Contents:

The original Lindisfarne gospels? / Dáibhi Ó Cróinin

The Royal-Otho-Corpus/Cambridge-London/Parker-Cotton-Wolsey Gospels / Bernard Meehan

Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow / Richard Gameson

The European context of manuscript illumination in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, 600-900 / Lawrence Nees

Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia / Joanna Story

Anglo-Saxon links with Rome and the Franks in the light of the Würzburg book list / Rosamond McKitterick

The transmission and reception of Alfredian "Apocrypha" / David F. Johnson

The lector and lectio in Anglo-Saxon England / Teresa Webber

The "Canterbury letter-book": Alcuin and after / Simon Keynes

The Wolf at work: uncovering Wulfstan's compositional method / Jonathan Wilcox

On the Italian provenance of the Vercelli Book / Winfried Rudolf

Anglo-Saxon travellers and their books / Francesca Tinti

A Fleury model for singing at Winchester / Simon Rankin

Fragments of some Anglo-Saxon service books in Norway and Sweden / Michael Gullick.

Notes:

"The essays in this volume all derive from papers given at the conference, 'Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms', held at the British Library on 13-14 December 2018"--Page xv

Companion volume to: Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war (2019).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781846828669

184682866X

OCLC:

1255837301

Publisher Number:

99989346222