Toller Lecture

The Toller Lecture is an annual lecture at the University of Manchester's Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS). It is named after Thomas Northcote Toller, one of the editors of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.^[1]

Notable lecturers have included Janet Bateley, the first Toller lecturer,^[2] Rolf Bremmer,^[3] George Brown, Michelle P. Brown,^[4] Roberta Frank,^[5] Helmut Gneuss,^[6] Nicholas Howe, Joyce Hill,^[7] Simon Keynes, Clare Lees,^[8] Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,^[9] Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne,^[10] Leslie Webster^[11] and Barbara Yorke.^[12] In the past, most Toller lectures were published in the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester; while a collection containing the revised and updated lectures from 1987 to 1997, together with new essays on Toller and the Toller Collection in the John Rylands Library, was published in 2003.^[13] However, with the establishment of the John Rylands Research Institute, the decision was made to prioritise the Special Collections of the Library in a revamped Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, and Toller lectures were no longer published there. It was therefore decided to publish recent Toller lectures as a separate collection which appeared in 2017.^[14]

Bibliography

• Scragg, Donald, ed. (2003). Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures. Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Vol. 1. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85991-773-5. Contains the first eleven Toller lectures.
• Insley, Charles; Owen-Crocker, Gale, eds. (2017). Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781785704970.

References

1. Scragg 2003.
2. "Manuscript Layout and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", in Scragg 2003, pp. 1–23.
3. "Looking Back at Anger: Wrath in Anglo-Saxon England". Review of English Studies. 275: 423–48. 2015.
4. "Strategies of Visual Literacy in Insular and Anglo-Saxon Book Culture", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 71–104.
5. "The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet", in Scragg 2003, pp. 137–60.
6. "The Study of Language in Anglo-Saxon England", in Scragg 2003, pp. 75–106.
7. "Translating the Tradition: Manuscripts, Models and Methodologies in the Composition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies", in Scragg 2003, pp. 137–60.
8. "Events at The University of Manchester". University of Manchester. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
9. "Source, Method, Theory, Practice: On Reading Two Old English Verse Texts", in Scragg 2003, pp. 241–60.
10. "The Politics of Early English". Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 88 (1): 101–22. 2006.
11. "Anglo-Saxon Art: tradition and transformation", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 23–46.
12. "King Alfred and Weland: traditional heroes at King Alfred's court", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 47–70.
13. Scragg 2003.
14. Gale Owen-Crocker, "Introduction", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, p. xiv.