Old English Literature In Its Manuscript Context

by Lionarons, Joyce Tally

• ISBN13: 9780937058831
• ISBN10: 0937058831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: West Virginia Univ Pr

Summary

InOld 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 Biography

Joyce Tally Lionarons is a professor in the Department of English at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. She has been the president of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association and has served on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Medieval Association. She has also been a bibliographer in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Patristric, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Paul E. Szarmach
Timothy Graham
Introduction	1	(10)
Joyce Tally Lionarons
Nostalgia and the Rhetoric of Lack: The Missing Exemplar for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Manuscript 41	11	(26)
Sharon M. Rowley
Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy	37	(30)
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	(28)
Joyce Tally Lionarons
Multilingual Glosses, Bilingual Text: English, French, and Latin in Three Manuscripts of Ælfric's Grammar	95	(26)
Melinda J. Menzer
Three Tables of Contents, One Old English Homiliary in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 178	121	(18)
Paul Acker
The Boundaries Between Verse and Prose in Old English Literature	139	(34)
Thomas A. Bredehoft
Glastonbury and the Early History of the Exeter Book	173	(44)
Robert M. Butler
Parker's Purposes Behind the Manuscripts: Matthew Parker in the Context of his Early Career and Sixteenth-Century Church Reform	217	(25)
Nancy Basler Bjorklund
Index of Manuscripts	242	(4)
General Index	246