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Old English Manuscripts In The Early Age Of Print: Matthew Parker And His Scribes, Robert Scott Bevill
Old English Manuscripts In The Early Age Of Print: Matthew Parker And His Scribes, Robert Scott Bevill
Doctoral Dissertations
Covering the first dedicated program in the study of and publication of Anglo-Saxon texts, my dissertation examines the sixteenth-century origins of medieval studies as an academic discipline. By placing recent scholarship on media, materiality, cognition, and intellectual history in conversation with traditional paleographical methods on medieval and renaissance manuscript culture, I argue for a new way of understanding how early modern scholars studied and presented the medieval past. I take as my focus a corpus of emulative Anglo-Saxon manuscript transcriptions produced under Elizabethan Archbishop Matthew Parker. Equal parts facsimile and edition, these transcriptions are a unique example of early modern …
The Conversion Of The Anglo-Saxon Kings, Marc Beneduci
The Conversion Of The Anglo-Saxon Kings, Marc Beneduci
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis examines the history of the establishment of the Anglo-Saxon practice of kingship and explores the conversion of that institution from a native and traditional pre-Christian political apparatus into one of autocratic Christian rule. By examining this period of history and studying the infiltration of foreign cultural elements, this study explores and discusses the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon regnal society was fundamentally transformed from an archetypal representation of the Germanic heroic age into one with a synthesis with aspects of Christian rule and religiosity. The nature of the time period requires alternative methods of historic understanding to be …