IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 201: Post-Conquest Old English Preaching Texts
Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220', An AHRC-Funded Project |
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| Organiser: | Mary Swan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elaine Treharne, Department of English, University of Leicester |
| Paper 201-a | Text Grouping and Demarcation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts from Worcester (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 201-b | The Taunton Fragments and the Homiliary of Angers: A Recently Discovered Piece of Post-Conquest Old English in its Continental Context (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 201-c | Describing Manuscripts in Post-Conquest England (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | The session will focus on particular examples of Old English textual production after 1060, with particular attention to manuscript production. The first paper will explore manuscript evidence for the changing identities of homiletic texts; the second will discuss the 12th-century preservation of Latin homilies used by post-Conquest Old English homilists; the third will draw on the ongoing work of the 'English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220' Project to establish models for describing manuscripts of this period. |