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Book SynopsisThe eight essays in The Recovery of Old English consider major aspects of the progress of Anglo-Saxon studies from their Tudor beginnings until their coming of age in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
The Study of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century and the Establishment of Old English Studies in the Universities by Angelika Lutz
John Joscelyn, Pioneer of Old English Lexicography by Timothy Graham
The Anglo-Saxon Pantheon According to Richard Verstegen (1605) by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.
William L'Isle and the Editing of Old English by Phillip Pulsiano
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 381: William L’Isle, Ælfric, and the
Ancrene Wisse by Stuart Lee
The Construction of Structure in the Earliest Editions of Old English Poetry by Danielle Cunniff Plumer
“The Oracle of His Countrey”? William Somner,
Gavelkind, and Lexicography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Kathryn A. Lowe
“That Most Elaborate One of Fr. Junius”: An Investigation of Francis Junius’s Manuscript Old English Dictionary by Kees Dekker
List of Works Cited
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
