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The eight essays in The Recovery of Old English consider major aspects of the progress of Anglo-Saxon studies from their Tudor beginnings until their coming of age in the second half of the seventeenth century.

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Author:   Timothy Graham
Publisher:   Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint:   Medieval Institute Publications
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.685kg
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9781580440134

ISBN 10:   1580440134
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   01 February 2001
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations The Study of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Seventeenth Century and the Establishment of Old English Studies in the Universities by Angelika Lutz John Joscelyn, Pioneer of Old English Lexicography by Timothy Graham The Anglo-Saxon Pantheon According to Richard Verstegen (1605) by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. William L'Isle and the Editing of Old English by Phillip Pulsiano Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 381: William L’Isle, Ælfric, and the Ancrene Wisse by Stuart Lee The Construction of Structure in the Earliest Editions of Old English Poetry by Danielle Cunniff Plumer “The Oracle of His Countrey”? William Somner, Gavelkind, and Lexicography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Kathryn A. Lowe “That Most Elaborate One of Fr. Junius”: An Investigation of Francis Junius’s Manuscript Old English Dictionary by Kees Dekker List of Works Cited Index of Manuscripts General Index

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Timothy Graham is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico and specializes in Anglo-Saxon England, paleography, and codicology. He is the coeditor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies which has become an authoritative textbook on the subject.

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