Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Hardcover
Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is a highly readable and well-illustrated guide to manuscript study for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature.Bringing together invaluable advice and information from a group of eminent scholars, it aims to develop in the reader an informed and realistic approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts in what may be limited time. In addition to an exploration of the various manuscript resources available in libraries and their research potential, the book appraises recent developments in electronic resources, making it a beneficial aid for teachers as well as individual researchers working away from the location of manuscripts.The book includes a clear and comprehensive guide to palaeography and codicology. Chapters on Old English prose, Old English poetry and Anglo-Latin texts introduce readers to the whole range of written material extant in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Manuscript art is uniquely presented in the
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Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester and has published widely in Medieval Studies. Her books include The Four Funerals of Beowulf and the structure of the poem (2000) and Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (2004), King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry (2005), for which she was volume editor and Medieval Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1100: An annotated bibliography (2007), co-written with E. Coatsworth.
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Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester and has published widely in Medieval Studies. Her books include The Four Funerals of Beowulf and the structure of the poem (2000) and Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (2004), King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry (2005), for which she was volume editor and Medieval Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1100: An annotated bibliography (2007), co-written with E. Coatsworth.
"A clear, reliable, practical and beautifully illustrated introduction to the subject. . . . This is a brilliantly conceived book, and just as brilliantly executed, and it should be required reading for all students of Anglo-Saxon England."—Review of English Studies
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- PublisherLiverpool University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0859898407
- ISBN 13 9780859898409
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- Number of pages336
- EditorOwen-Crocker Gale R.
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