The Wisdom of Exeter: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of Patrick W. Conner (Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies)

261 Pages·2020·5.557 MB·English

by  E.J. Christie (editor)

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
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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
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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
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