Charles Insley - Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text

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Front cover: Processional cross from the Staffordshire Hoard, mid-7th century. Birmingham Museums Trust; detail of altar cross from Bischofshofen church, near Salzburg; Anglo-Saxon, late 8th century. Salzburg, Dom Museum.

Gale R. Owen-Crocker

John Hines

Leslie Webster

Barbara Yorke

Michelle P. Brown

amonn Carragin

MICHELLE P. BROWN FSA is currently Professor Emerita in Medieval Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is also a Visiting Professor at University College London and at Baylor University and is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo. She was formerly Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She delivered the Toller Lecture in 2009.

JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University where he has taught in the Schools of English Studies and of History, Archaeology and Religion. His principal archaeological publications include The Scandinavian Character of Anglian England in the pre-Viking Period, A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-headed Brooches, Voices in the Past and (as editor and co-author) Anglo-Saxon Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: A Chronological Framework. He is a former editor of Medieval Archaeology and is general editor of the series Anglo-Saxon Studies (Boydell and Brewer). He delivered the Toller Lecture in 2014.

CHARLES INSLEY (Editor) is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, The University of Manchester. He is currently Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. He has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Welsh charters and his edition of the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Exeter Cathedral is forthcoming, as is a biography of the first king of the English, thelstan (924939).

AMONN CARRAGIN has taught at Trinity College, Dublin; the Queens University of Belfast; and University College, Cork, where he was Professor of Old and Middle English (19752007). His publications include The city of Rome and the world of Bede (Jarrow Lecture for 1994) and Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical images and the Old English poems of the Dream of the Rood tradition (London and Toronto, 2005). He delivered the Toller Lecture in 2012.

GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER (Editor) is Professor Emerita, The University of Manchester, having previously been Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Her books include The Four Funerals in Beowulf, Dress in Anglo-Saxon England, The Bayeux Tapestry: Collected Papers and An Encyclopedia of Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, c.4501450. She directed the production of a database of dress/textile terms in all languages of the British Isles (http://lexisproject.arts.manchester.ac.uk/) and is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.

LESLIE WEBSTER is a leading specialist in the Anglo-Saxon field. She was formerly Keeper of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum, and senior curator of the Insular early medieval collections. She has curated a number of major exhibitions, and has written and lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology. Her most recent books include Anglo-Saxon Art: a New History, and The Franks Casket, both published in 2012. Her current projects include co-editing the publication of the Staffordshire Hoard, for which she is also writing up the ecclesiastical metalwork from the assemblage. She delivered the Toller lecture in 2013.

BARBARA YORKE is Professor Emerita of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Major publications include Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages and The Conversion of Britain 600800. Her most recent publication is a book on King Alfred for the Pocket Giants series of the History Press. She was recently a Council member of The Society of Antiquaries and is currently a Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Society. She delivered the Toller lecture in 2011.

This volume contains five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS). MANCASS was founded in 1984, based at, but not confined to, The University of Manchester, as a cross-disciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of culture in pre-Norman England. Its first director was Professor Donald Scragg, who presided over the Centre until his retirement in 2005. He was succeeded as Director by Dr Alexander Rumble (20052010) and Professor Gale Owen-Crocker followed (20102015), each of them serving until their retirement from the University of Manchester. The present director is Dr Charles Insley.

Members of the MANCASS group of scholars have been involved in major publicly-funded research projects, including Fontes Anglo-Saxonici, The Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Anglo-Saxon England, Inventory of Script Categories and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English and The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing. Their research assistants and associates of these projects have become part of the MANCASS community and the Centre has accumulated a substantial research library which has been supplemented by a loan from the estate of Professor John Dodgeson, a bequest from former student Margaret Bailey and a gift from former student Dr John Highfield. This library is shelved in the office of the present deputy director, Dr James Paz, and may be consulted on request to him. MANCASS has also, through liaison with Professor Craig Davis of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, welcomed as visiting fellows several undergraduates from Smith College, USA and the University of Hamburg, Germany, who have been taught editing, indexing and bibliographical skills while assisting in the preparation of publications. The editors thank recent honorary fellow Emily Rothman for her help in the early stages of the preparation of this volume.