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Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms : cultures and connections

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Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms : cultures and connections / Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors ; with Eleanor Jackson.

Publication

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2021]
©2021

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xvii, 242 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color), music; 29 cm

Summary

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war? Together, these manuscripts illuminate extensive intellectual connections as well as widespread scribal and artistic networks that developed within the islands of Britain and Ireland, and further afield across much of early medieval Europe. Using new scientific methods, as well as textual criticism, art historical analysis and historical research, the essays in this richly illustrated volume, written by leading scholars, present innovative research that focuses on manuscripts that were copied, decorated or used in the early English kingdoms and their neighbours, across a 500-year period from the advent of Christianity among the English, c.600, to the age of conquest in the eleventh century.

Uniform Title

Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

"The essays in this volume all derive from papers given at the conference, 'Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms', held at the British Library on 13-14 December 2018."--Page xv
Companion volume to: Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war (2019)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and indexes

Contents

The original Lindisfarne gospels? / Dáibhi Ó Cróinin -- The Royal-Otho-Corpus/Cambridge-London/Parker-Cotton-Wolsey Gospels / Bernard Meehan -- Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow / Richard Gameson -- The European context of manuscript illumination in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, 600-900 / Lawrence Nees -- Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia / Joanna Story -- Anglo-Saxon links with Rome and the Franks in the light of the Würzburg book list / Rosamond McKitterick -- The transmission and reception of Alfredian "Apocrypha" / David F. Johnson -- The lector and lectio in Anglo-Saxon England / Teresa Webber -- The "Canterbury letter-book": Alcuin and after / Simon Keynes -- The Wolf at work: uncovering Wulfstan's compositional method / Jonathan Wilcox -- On the Italian provenance of the Vercelli Book / Winfried Rudolf -- Anglo-Saxon travellers and their books / Francesca Tinti -- A Fleury model for singing at Winchester / Simon Rankin -- Fragments of some Anglo-Saxon service books in Norway and Sweden / Michael Gullick.

ISBN

9781846828669
184682866X

LCCN

99989486311

OCLC

on1255837301
1255837301
SCSB-14253155

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Columbia University Libraries