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]

  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. ^ Treharne, Elaine (2006). "The Politics of Early English". Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 88 (1): 101–22. doi:10.7227/BJRL.88.1.4.
  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.