List of Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

Donald Scragg

Manuscript Layout and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Janet Bately

Scyld Scefing and the Dating of Beowulf - Again

Audrey Meaney

The Study of Language in Anglo-Saxon England

Helmut Gneuss

Textual Criticism and the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England

Michael Lapidge

The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet

Roberta Frank

Source, Method, Theory, Practice: On Reading Two Old English Verse Texts

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

The Dynamics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England

George Hardin Brown

`What mean these stones?': Some Aspects of pre-Norman Sculpture in Cheshire and Lancashire

Richard Bailey

Translating the Tradition: Manuscripts, Models and Methodologies in the Composition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies

Joyce Hill

Anglo-Saxon Smiths and Myths

David A. Hinton

Toller at School: Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller and the Progress of Old English Lexicography in the Nineteenth Century

Peter Baker

T. Northcote Toller and the Making of the Supplement to the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

Dabney Anderson Bankert

Items of Lexicographical Interest in the Toller Collection, John Rylands University Library of Manchester

Alexander Rumble

Thomas Northcote Toller: `This Fearless and Self-sacrificing Knight of Scholarship'

Joana Proud