Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

by Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)

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

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2009

About the author

For books published in her early career, see also: Gale R. Owen.

Prof. Owen-Crocker's chief research interests are Anglo-Saxon literature and culture and medieval dress/textiles. She has lectured by invitation at universities in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Taiwan and the USA. She has advised museums and archaeological units on medieval dress. She appeared in this role on BBC TV's 'Meet the Ancestors' and has broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and in Radio 3's 'Anglo-Saxon Portraits' series. She is co-founder/editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles and was Chief Editor of the Brill Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 (published 2012) She is Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, and directs a 5-year AHRC funded project 'The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing' http://lexisproject.arts.manchester.a...