Anglo-Saxon Aloud
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Anglo-Saxon Aloud


This is a great project, and will be going on the HA Links page, but thought I'd announce it here too. Michael Drout has recently completed a CD of reading Beowulf, and has now undertaken reading all of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records aloud and posting them as podcasts available for free online or for free through I-tunes. The URL is: http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout




- Pase Project To Be Featured In Bbc Documentary
ELB writes: The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England project, which was undertaken jointly by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge, and King's College, London, is to feature in a BBC2 documentary on 'Domesday'...

- Cfp On Late Old English Verse
Late Old English Verse This session focuses on Old English poetry datable to between c. 950 and 1150. Many of these poems are embedded in late annals in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; most of them were snubbed by being excluded from volume 6 of the Anglo-Saxon...

- Woruldhord
I'm a bit late on this one....I'm almost caught up to July. But in case you haven't seen this, here it is: Dear All, Relating to my note a few weeks ago I am pleased to announce that we have now opened the online submission site for Project...

- T.n. Toller Memorial Lecture For 2009
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies is pleased to announce: The T.N. Toller Memorial Lecture for 2009 will be given by Professor Michelle Brown, formerly Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, on ?Words to be Seen and Images...

- Thomas Northcote Toller Memorial Lecture
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies is pleased to announce that the Thomas Northcote Toller Memorial Lecture on Monday 2 March 2009 will be given by Professor Michelle Brown on 'Tha Anglo-Saxon Contribution to the History of the Book'. It...



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