Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)

Owen-Crocker, Gale R.

ISBN 10: 0859898415 / ISBN 13: 9780859898416

Published by Exeter University Press, Exeter, 2009

About this Item

An 'as new' copy of the first edition of this comprehensive work about the complexities of dealing with Anglos-Saxon Manuscripts, edited by Gale Owen-Crocker of the Manchester Center for Anglo Saxon Studies (MANCASS). Only one previous owner (a contributer). No Dust Jacket ( as issued). Cover: red and black laminated card with colour image of a manuscript to front, white and red lettering to front and spine, and white lettering to rear; very bright and clean; no visible signs of shelf wear, no creasing to spine. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings inscriptions or book plates; overall in excellent condition. Illustrated throughout in black and white, and colour. xvi, 320 pp.

Seller Inventory # 003730

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
• Publisher: Exeter University Press, Exeter
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859898415
• ISBN 13: 9780859898416
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anglo Saxon
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

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 context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as a whole, moving beyond traditional approaches, while the chapter ‘Reading between (and beyond) the lines’ demonstrates some of the fascinating detail of glosses and marginalia, and reveals how the life of the manuscript continued beyond the writing of its main text.

About the Author

Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018), Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Maren Clegg Hyer, Liverpool University Press, 2020) and Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic (co-editor with Alexandra Lester-Makin, Boydell & Brewer, 2024).