Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries written by Patrizia Lendinara and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Lendinara here offers a detailed analysis of glosses, their origin, aims and use, within the framework of Anglo-Saxon schools, monasteries and society. Four of the pieces have been specially translated from Italian, and she opens the volume with a major new introduction to the field. The work includes the publication of glossaries, and explores the transmission and relationship of different texts, into the first centuries after the Norman Conquest. Taken together, these articles set out the role and importance of glossaries in the intellectual world of the Anglo-Saxon monastery, the cells where monks were studying, and in the schools.