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This thesis examines the uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the 150 years immediately following the Norman Conquest. By focusing on the most common types of use evident in the manuscripts, it explores how readers actually interacted with books. It also treats manuscripts as cultural artefacts through which it is possible to observe the literary and social consequences of the Conquest. The Introduction summarises our current understanding of the literary culture of this transitional period. Ch...
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- Supervisor
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Oxford college:
- St John's College
- Department:
- Humanities Division - English Language and Literature
- Funding agency for:
- Mark Jonathan Faulkner
- Publication date:
- 2008
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
- URN:
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- Local pid:
- ora:3009
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Mark Faulkner
- Copyright date:
- 2008
Thesis
The uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 1066-1200
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+ M. B. Parkes
+ Malcolm Godden
+ Mark Jonathan Faulkner
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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