Description
Book SynopsisThis book, published in 2000, is a substantial publication in the growing field of studies of texts in Old English in the twelfth (and early thirteenth) century. Useful to historians, linguists, English, Anglo-Norman and Latin literature scholars and manuscript specialists, it covers a wide variety of significant issues including production, audience, contents and uses.
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'This is a splendid volume, bringing to the fore an area of Anglo-Saxon studies which has been much neglected or devalued in the past.' Medium Aevum
'The essays are highly technical and deeply learned, but together push open a door into a neglected world.' Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Table of ContentsList of plates; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Elaine M. Treharne and Mary Swan; 2. The production and script of manuscripts containing English religious texts in the first half of the twelfth century Elaine M. Treharne; 3. The compilation and use of manuscripts containing Old English in the twelfth century Susan Irvine; 4. Ælfric's Catholic Homilies in the twelfth century Mary Swan; 5. Wulfstan and the twelfth century Jonathan Wilcox; 6. Mnemonic transmission of Old English texts in the post-Conquest period Loredana Teresi; 7. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the evidence of the extant manuscripts Joana Proud; 8. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the Life of Martin in Bodley 343 Susan Rosser; 9. Scribal habit: the evidence of the Old English Gospels Roy Michael Liuzza; 10. The Old English gloss of the Eadwine Psalter Phillip Pulsiano; 11. The Tremulous Worcester Hand and Gregory's Pastoral Care Wendy Collier; Index of manuscripts; General index.
