In "Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context," editor Joyce Tally Lionarons has developed a multifaceted collection examining the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings. Eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, authorship and translation, and editorial standards and obligations. This work also features a scholarly exchange of ideas and photographs of the original Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, making this essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Old English literature. The essays published in this text were originally composed at an NEH summer seminar conducted by Paul Szarmach and Timothy Graham at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1997.
Author(s): Joyce Tally Lionarons (ed.)
Series: Medieval European Studies, 5
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: VIII+254
City: Morgantown
Foreword vii
Paul E. Szarmach & Timothy Graham
Introduction 1
Joyce Tally Lionarons
Nostalgia and the Rhetoric of Lack: The Missing Exemplar for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Manuscript 41 11
Sharon M. Rowley
Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy 37
Nancy M. Thompson
Textual Appropriation and Scribal (Re)Performance in a Composite Homily: The Case for a New Edition of Wulfstan's "De Temporibus Anticristi" 67
Joyce Tally Lionarons
Multilingual Glosses, Bilingual Text: English, French, and Latin in Three Manuscripts of Ælfric's Grammar 95
Melinda J. Menzer
Three Tables of Contents, One Old English Homiliary in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 178 121
Paul Acker
The Boundaries Between Verse and Prose in Old English Literature 139
Thomas A. Bredehoft
Glastonbury and the Early History of the Exeter Book 173
Robert M. Butler
Parker's Purposes Behind the Manuscripts: Matthew Parker in the Context of his Early Career and Sixteenth-Century Church Reform 217
Nancy Basler Bjorklund
Index of Manuscripts 242
General Index 246
