The Wisdom of Exeter: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of Patrick W. Conner (Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies) PDF
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TheWisdomofExeter Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies Editorial Board LindyBrady,UniversityofMississippi,USA KeesDekker,RijksuniversiteitGroningen,theNetherlands NicoleGuentherDiscenza,UniversityofSouthFlorida,USA HelenFoxhallForbes,DurhamUniversity,England TimothyGraham,UniversityofNewMexico,USA CatherineKarkov,UniversityofLeeds,England(SeriesEditor) RosalindLove,RobinsonCollege,CambridgeUniversity,England The Wisdom of Exeter Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of Patrick W. Conner Edited by E.J. Christie ISBN978-1-5015-1782-2 e-ISBN(PDF)978-1-5015-1306-0 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-1-5015-1290-2 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2020939022 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2020WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Coverimage:ExeterBook20v,©ProfessorBernardMuir Typesetting:IntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck www.degruyter.com Contents ListofIllustrations VII E.J.Christie Introduction 1 ElaineTreharne 1 TheConnersofExeter,1070–1150 11 DavidF.Johnson 2 WinchesterRevisited:Æthelwold,Lucifer,andthePlaceofOriginof MSJunius11 27 ThomasA.Bredehoft 3 MetricalFootprintsandPatConner’sExeterBooklets 63 TimothyGraham 4 TheEarlyModernAfterlifeofExeter’sAnglo-SaxonManuscripts 77 CatherineE.Karkov 5 TheDivisionsoftheRuthwellCross 131 StuartD.Lee 6 Lagustreamas:TheChangingWatersSurroundingJ.R.R.Tolkienand TheBattleofMaldon 157 BobHasenfratz 7 TheCurseofSleepinAnglo-SaxonEngland 177 ThomasN.Hall 8 Andreas’sBloomingBlood 197 ThomasD.Hill 9 GuthlacasPotentialBrigand:GuthlacAlines114–40 221 JillFrederick 10 PerformanceandAudienceintheExeterBookRiddles 227 VI Contents PublicationsofPatrickW.Conner 243 Index 247 List of Illustrations Figure4.1 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS101,p.449.Sectionofthe ParkeriantranscriptofthelistofLeofric’sprocurements,withmarginal notesrelatingtothreeofthebooksincludedinthelist.Bykind permissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge 83 Figure4.2 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS190,p.306.PortionofÆlfric’s pastoralletterforWulfsige,bishopofSherborne,withunderlining probablybyJohnJoscelyn.Notetheparchmenttabpastedtotheedgeof theleaf.BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge 89 Figure4.3 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS190,p.294,withParkerian additionoftheLatinprefacetoÆlfric’spastoralletterforWulfsige.By kindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge 91 Figure4.4 TheGospelsoftheFowerEuangelistes(1571),sig.D.iiiiv,withtextfromthe endofchapter7ofSt.Matthew’sgospel.NotetherubricbeforeMatthew 7:28.BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge 95 Figure4.5 CambridgeUniversityLibraryMSIi.2.11,fol.12v,withrubricforMatthew 7:28–8:13.BykindpermissionoftheSyndicsofCambridgeUniversity Library 96 Figure4.6 Oxford,BodleianLibrary,MSBodley441,fol.11v.NotetheParkerian additionofversenumbersandoftherubricprecedingMatthew7:28.By kindpermissionoftheBodleianLibrary,UniversityofOxford 98 Figure4.7 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS41,p.85,withmarginalnoteby AbrahamWheelockcommentingontheabsenceofthispassageoftheOld EnglishEcclesiasticalHistoryfromtheUniversityLibrarycopy.Bykind permissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge 102 Figure4.8 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS41,p.241.InthemarginWheelock hassuppliedfromCULKk.3.18twoportionsoftextomittedbytheoriginal scribeofCCCC41,keyingthemtotheappropriatepointinthetextwith pairsofmatchingsignes-de-renvoi.BykindpermissionoftheParker Library,CorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge 103 Figure4.9 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS419,fol.ivv.TheSblockof Wheelock’sindexnotesforthevolume.BykindpermissionoftheParker Library,CorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge 108 Figure4.10 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS421,p.47.WilliamL’Isle’smarking ofascripturalquotationwithinÆlfric’shomily“Innataleplurimorum sanctorummartyrum.”BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,Corpus ChristiCollege,Cambridge 110 Figure4.11 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS191,fol.iiv.InscriptionbyMatthew ParkerrecordinghisbeliefthatArchbishopTheodorewastheauthorof themanuscript’sLatintextandthatÆlfricwasthetranslatoroftheOld Englishversion.BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristi College,Cambridge 114 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513060-203 VIII ListofIllustrations Figure4.12 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS191,p.127.Apassagebearingon clericalmarriagewithintheOldEnglishversionoftheenlargedRuleof ChrodeganghasherebeenunderlinedandglossedinLatinbyJohn Joscelyn.BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge 120 Figure4.13 Cambridge,CorpusChristiCollege,MS191,p.138.WilliamRetchford’s interlineartranscriptionofthefadedtitleofchapter76oftheenlarged RuleofChrodegang.BykindpermissionoftheParkerLibrary,Corpus ChristiCollege,Cambridge 129 Figure5.1 RuthwellMonument,OriginalEastSide.Photo:Author 131 Figure5.2 RuthwellMonument,OriginalSouthSide.Photo:Author 132 Figure5.3 RuthwellMonument,OriginalEastSide.Photo:Author 136 E. J. Christie Introduction Thisinterdisciplinaryvolumecollectsoriginalessaysinthefieldsofcodicology, paleography, metrics, history, art history, and literary criticism. Composed by prominent scholars in Anglo-Saxon studies, these essays honor the depth and breadthofPatrickW.Conner’sinfluenceinourdiscipline. Patrick W. Conner is Eberly Centennial Professor of Arts and Sciences Emeritus at West Virginia University. He is author of Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History (1993), editor of the reconstructed Abingdon ver- sionoftheAnglo-SaxonChronicle(1996)forCambridge’scollaborativeeditionof the Anglo-SaxonChronicle,and oneof the acknowledged expertsonthe Exeter BookofOldEnglishpoetry.HeisaformerExecutiveDirectoroftheInternational SocietyofAnglo-Saxonists(1991–1997)andwasinductedasanhonorarymember in2011.He served on the editorial boardofthe Old English Newsletterand was Chair of the English department at WVU (1994–2000) and director of the West VirginiaUniversityPress(1999–2008).Healsohasthedubiouscredentialofhav- ingdirectedmydoctoraldissertation.Inmyview,thislastachievementwasobvi- ouslythecrowningoneinalongandillustriouscareer.Ifitwasonlythroughme that Pat’s legacy lived on, others might say, there would be some cause for alarm.Thankfully,itishardtoassesswhichofhislegaciesismostprofound.As ascholar,teacher,editor,administrator,andinnovator,Pathasbeenaleaderin thedisciplineofAnglo-Saxonstudiesforfourdecades. HeearnedhisPh.D.attheUniversityofMaryland(1975)withadissertation ontheExeterBook.AfterabriefstintatGoucherCollege,Patmadehisdebutat West Virginia University in 1976. After 35 years of service the name of this Universityisnow,amongAnglo-Saxonists,simplysynonymouswithPat’s.His influential “Booklet Theory” of the Exeter Book, first published in “The Structure of theExeter Book Codex” (1986), proposes on codicological and pa- leographicalgroundsthattheExeterBookwascompletedasthreeoriginallyin- dependent booklets. Different forms of membrane, soiled outer leaves, as well asthedistributionofdecorativeinitialsandspecialletterforms,offerclearsup- portforthehypothesis.TomBredehoft’scontributiontothisvolumeoffersfur- ther,metricalsupportforthecompositionoftheExeterBookaccordingtoPat’s Booklet Theory. Conner further suggests that the paleographical differences can be explained by a significant passage of time between the completion of one booklet and the next. As a result of these findings, the “literary self- E.J.Christie,GeorgiaStateUniversity https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513060-001
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