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.Scragg 2003.
Notable lecturers have included Janet Bateley, the first Toller lecturer,"Manuscript Layout and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", in Scragg 2003, pp. 1–23. Rolf Bremmer, George Brown, Michelle P. Brown,"Strategies of Visual Literacy in Insular and Anglo-Saxon Book Culture", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 71–104. Roberta Frank,"The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet", in Scragg 2003, pp. 137–60. Helmut Gneuss,"The Study of Language in Anglo-Saxon England", in Scragg 2003, pp. 75–106. Nicholas Howe, Joyce Hill,"Translating the Tradition: Manuscripts, Models and Methodologies in the Composition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies", in Scragg 2003, pp. 137–60. Simon Keynes, Clare Lees, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,"Source, Method, Theory, Practice: On Reading Two Old English Verse Texts", in Scragg 2003, pp. 241–60. Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne, Leslie Webster"Anglo-Saxon Art: tradition and transformation", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 23–46. and Barbara Yorke."King Alfred and Weland: traditional heroes at King Alfred's court", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, pp. 47–70. 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.Scragg 2003. 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.Gale Owen-Crocker, "Introduction", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, p. xiv.
Bibliography Contains the first eleven Toller lectures.
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