Reading between the Lines: Glossed Manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research

Organizer Name

Rosalind Love

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Presider Name

Kees Dekker

Presider Affiliation

Rijksuniv. Groningen

Paper Title 1

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 8558-63: A Bridge between the Carolingian Schoolroom and the Old English Soliloquies

Presenter 1 Name

Leslie Lockett

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Paper Title 2

The Purpose and Form of the Vitellius Psalter Glosses

Presenter 2 Name

M. Jane Toswell

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Western Univ.

Paper Title 3

Reading Boethius at Canterbury

Presenter 3 Name

Rosalind Love

Start Date

10-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 204

Description

Glossed manuscripts are an important window into the intellectual life of the early Middle Ages and the way ideas circulated. This session brings together papers on glossed copies from Anglo-Saxon England of three key texts: the Psalms, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and Augustine's Soliloquies. The session will seek to consider what needs glossing was intended to serve, where the annotation derived from, and also how much glosses can tell us about the interests of those who created and used these books. Rosalind C. Love