Palaeography is crucial for an understanding of Anglo-Saxon history, literature, and archaeology, while the development of Anglo-Saxon literacy has much significance as a cultural indicator. The papers in this book offer an original and multidisciplinary approach to the study of the introduction and use of writing in the Latin alphabet in Anglo-Saxon England. They consider the variety of contexts in which letter-forms were executed and texts were copied in England between the seventh and eleventh centuries: in books, documents, textiles, stones, and metalwork. Several of the papers shed new light on well-known manuscripts, scribes, artefacts or texts by approaching them from a different angle, others survey bibliographical and cultural aspects of the surviving corpus of writing from this period, while not least among the discoveries made is the identification and publication of a new piece of Old English verse.
Dr ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE is Reader in Palaeography at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, RICHARD EMMS, JANE ROBERTS, CATHERINE E. KARKOV, ELISABETH OKASHA, ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, PHILIP SHAW, CAROLE HOUGH, TIMOFEY GUIMON
Reviews
The volume as a whole is [...] usefully wide ranging. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Details
First Published: 19 Oct 2006
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843840909
Pages: 172
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series:
Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon StudiesSubject:
Medieval LiteratureBIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 04 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 The Study of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Collections and Scribes: in the Footsteps of Wanley and Ker
- 2 Books and Writing in Seventh-Century Kent
- 3 Aldred Signs Off from Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels
- 4 Writing and Having Written: Word and Image in the Eadwig Gospels
- 5 Script-Mixing in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions
- 6 Inscriptions on Textiles associated with Anglo-Saxon England
- 7 The Manuscript Texts of `Against a Dwarf'
- 8 Numbers in Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Law
- 9 The Writing of Annals in Eleventh-Century England: Palaeography and Textual History
