Tuesday 19 May 2015

Writing a Good Book

Writing a Good Book: 
Uncovering the Work of Anglo-Saxon Scribes

Dr Christine Wallis

Thursday 28 May 19:00 - 20:30
University of Sheffield, Jessop West Exhibition Space

This talk will focus on how we can discover aspects of scribal training and attitudes to manuscript production among Anglo-Saxon scribes, by looking carefully at the texts they write. Dr Wallis uses linguistic analysis to try to access some of the thought-processes and behaviours that contribute to the finished manuscript pages that we can read today.

Dr Wallis researches textual transmission and scribal behaviour in Old English prose manuscripts.  Her PhD thesis investigated the Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, focusing on the scribal contribution to variation in these manuscripts. I am interested in what the linguistic features evident in manuscripts can tell us about the way scribes approached copying texts from their exemplars.

University of Sheffield, Jessop West Exhibition Space
£2 donation (or whatever you think is appropriate)

Finding us 
The Jessop West Exhibition Space is on Upper Hanover Street. Parking is available in the nearby Brook Hill carpark. You can also park on Gell Street (right across the road) for the same price. Buses 10, 10a and 95 stop opposite the Arts Tower, or you can catch the tram to Upper Hanover Street.

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