Medieval History
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016
Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse
While there are exemplary surveys of the early insular manuscript
tradition by J.J.G. Alexander, Michelle Brown and Richard Gameson, for
example, such works focus heavily on the illumination and codicology of
sacred books and not on how vernacular production got started. This is
even more evident in the paucity of secondary literature on how
vernacular poetic texts first came to be inscribed (with the exception,
perhaps, of work on Cædmon's Hymn), how they were distinguished from
prose, and what continental exemplars they may well have used.
Therefore, this session seeks papers considering the manuscript context
and all associated matters of paleography and codicology for the
earliest poetic texts recorded (pre-950) in Old English, Anglo-Latin,
Caroline Latin, Old Saxon, and Old High German.
How much influence does the layout of Caroline and Anglo-Latin poems
have in determining the inscription of vernacular poems? Are vernacular
poems initially derivative in their layout, or low-status, compared to
their Latin cousins?
As we know that manuscripts of early Germanic verse texts, in particular
the Old Saxon Heliand, were available in England from the late
ninth-century forward and that Anglo-Saxon scribes and scholars on the
continent were likely to have seen such works in Caroline centres of
learning, were they formative for later English books such as the Junius
and Exeter codices of Old English poetry?
What factors and exemplars determine the manuscript layout of verse
texts in such instances as marginal and flyleaf recordings of poems that
clearly appear secondary to the prose texts they complement?
Papers are particularly welcome to investigate strategies of layout for
unusual poems such as acrostics and incomplete poems, and the evolution
of the use of punctuation to mark poems and aid in recitation. The
session also solicits consideration of how modern printing affects - or
rather, shapes - the reception of these early medieval verses.
Last, the session in particular solicits reappraisals of Katherine
O?Brien O?Keeffe?s landmark book, Visible Song: Transformational
Literacy in Old English Verse, now past its 25th anniversary.
Please contact by September 15th:
Bruce Gilchrist
Saint Lawrence College
790, rue Nérée-Tremblay
Québec, QC // Canada // G1V 4K2
[email protected]
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Medieval History
Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016
Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse
While there are exemplary surveys of the early insular manuscript
tradition by J.J.G. Alexander, Michelle Brown and Richard Gameson, for
example, such works focus heavily on the illumination and codicology of
sacred books and not on how vernacular production got started. This is
even more evident in the paucity of secondary literature on how
vernacular poetic texts first came to be inscribed (with the exception,
perhaps, of work on Cædmon's Hymn), how they were distinguished from
prose, and what continental exemplars they may well have used.
Therefore, this session seeks papers considering the manuscript context
and all associated matters of paleography and codicology for the
earliest poetic texts recorded (pre-950) in Old English, Anglo-Latin,
Caroline Latin, Old Saxon, and Old High German.
How much influence does the layout of Caroline and Anglo-Latin poems
have in determining the inscription of vernacular poems? Are vernacular
poems initially derivative in their layout, or low-status, compared to
their Latin cousins?
As we know that manuscripts of early Germanic verse texts, in particular
the Old Saxon Heliand, were available in England from the late
ninth-century forward and that Anglo-Saxon scribes and scholars on the
continent were likely to have seen such works in Caroline centres of
learning, were they formative for later English books such as the Junius
and Exeter codices of Old English poetry?
What factors and exemplars determine the manuscript layout of verse
texts in such instances as marginal and flyleaf recordings of poems that
clearly appear secondary to the prose texts they complement?
Papers are particularly welcome to investigate strategies of layout for
unusual poems such as acrostics and incomplete poems, and the evolution
of the use of punctuation to mark poems and aid in recitation. The
session also solicits consideration of how modern printing affects - or
rather, shapes - the reception of these early medieval verses.
Last, the session in particular solicits reappraisals of Katherine
O?Brien O?Keeffe?s landmark book, Visible Song: Transformational
Literacy in Old English Verse, now past its 25th anniversary.
Please contact by September 15th:
Bruce Gilchrist
Saint Lawrence College
790, rue Nérée-Tremblay
Québec, QC // Canada // G1V 4K2
[email protected]
- Call For Papers: International Congress On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mi, May 12-15, 2016
Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016 Sponsored by Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS) Organizers: Johanna Kramer (University of Missouri) and Robin Norris (Carleton University) Deadline: 15 September...
- ?the Exeter Book?s Digital Decade?
?The Exeter Book?s Digital Decade? Co-organized by Brian T. O?Camb and Matthew T. Hussey sponsored by Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile The 2006 publication of Bernard J. Muir's "The Electronic Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry:...
- New Approaches To Old English Biblical Poetry
Kalamazoo 2016 #Kzoo2016 Call for Papers: 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University 12-15 May 2016 in Kalamazoo, Michigan Session Title: New Approaches to Old English Biblical Poetry Session Organizer: Jill Fitzgerald...
- Mancass Anglo-saxon Texts And Writers Cfp
Call for Papers M A N C A S S 5th Annual Postgraduate Conference 2nd - 3rd March, 2009 Anglo-Saxon Texts and Writers We are inviting postgraduate students in all disciplines to submit proposals for 20-minute papers for the 5th Annual MANCASS Postgraduate...
- New Books Of Interest
1. John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts SEM 13 (October 2006) XVI+332 p., 8 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback ISBN 978-2-503-51530-4, EUR 60.00 This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly...