Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence : papers presented at the international conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006

The essays collected in this volume focus on a prominent aspect of Anglo-Saxon culture: educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them. The English imported manuscripts and texts from the Continent, whilst a series of foreign masters, from Theodore of Tarsus to Abbo of Fleury, brought with them knowledge of works which were being studied in Continental schools. Although monastic education played a leading role for the entire Anglo-Saxon period, it was in the second half of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that it reached its zenith, with its renewed importance and the presence of energetic masters such as Æthelwold and Ælfric. The indebtedness to Continental programs of study is evident at each step, beginning with the Disticha Catonis. Nevertheless, a number of texts initially designed for a Latin-speaking milieu appear to have been abandoned (for instance in the field of grammar) in favour of new teaching tools. Beside texts which were part of the standard curriculum, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts provide abundant evidence of other learning and teaching instruments, in particular those for a specialized class of laymen, the Old English læce, the healer or physician. Medicine occupies a relevant place in the book production of late Anglo-Saxon England and, in this field too, knowledge from very far afield was preserved and reshaped. All these essays, many by leading scholars in the various fields, explore these issues by analysing the actual manuscripts, their layout and contents. They show how miscellaneous collections of treatises in medieval codices had an internal logic, and highlight how crucial manuscripts are to the study of medieval culture. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of illustrations”, “Acknowledgements”, “Abbreviations”, “Preface”), p. i Free Access London, British Library, Harley 3271: the composition and structure of an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon miscellany, p. 3 László Sándor Chardonnens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4177 The transmission of medical knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England: the voices of manuscripts, p. 35 Maria Amalia D’Aronco https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4178 Instructional manuscripts in England: the tenth- and eleventh-century codices and the early Norman ones, p. 59 Patrizia Lendinara https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4179 Cues and clues: palaeographical aspects of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, p. 115 Alexander R. Rumble https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4180 The drawing on the margin of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 206, f. 38r: an intertextual exemplification to clarify the text?, p. 131 Loredana Teresi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4181 Remigius’s commentary to the Disticha Catonis in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, p. 143 Filippa Alcamesi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4182 Learning Latin through the Regula Sancti Benedicti: the interlinear glosses in London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii, p. 187 Maria Caterina De Bonis https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4183 An unpublished ubi sunt piece in Wulfstan’s ‘Commonplace Book’: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, pp. 94-96, p. 217 Claudia Di Sciacca https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4184 An unpublished De lapidibus in its manuscript tradition, with particular regard to the Anglo-Saxon area, p. 251 Concetta Giliberto https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4185 Ælfric’s grammatical triad, p. 285 Joyce Hill https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4186 The scholarly achievements of Æthelwold and his circle, p. 309 Loredana Lazzari https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4187 Of the choice and use of the word beatus in the Beatus quid est: notes by a non-philologist, p. 349 Ignazio Mauro Mirto https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4188 A didactic dialogue in Old and Middle English versions: the prose Solomon and Saturn and the Master of Oxford’s Catechism, p. 363 Hans Sauer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4189 Teaching medicine in Late Antiquity: method, texts and contexts, p. 401 Isabella Andorlini https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4190 Medical training in Anglo-Saxon England: an evaluation of the evidence, p. 415 Anne Van Arsdall https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4191 Parallel remedies: Old English «paralisin þæt is lyft adl», p. 435 Luisa Bezzo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4192 Possible instructional effects of the Exeter Book ‘wisdom poems’: a Benedictine Reform context, p. 447 Michael D.C. Drout https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4193 Master-student medical dialogues: the evidence of London, British Library, Sloane 2839, p. 467 Florence Eliza Glaze https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4194 The Fortune of the Practica Petrocelli Salernitani in England: new evidence and some considerations, p. 495 Daniele Maion https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.4195 Back matter (“Indices”, “Index of manuscripts”, “Index of antique and medieval authors and works”), p. 513 The essays collected in this volume focus on a prominent aspect of Anglo-Saxon educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them. The English imported manuscripts and texts from the Continent, whilst a series of foreign masters, from Theodore of Tarsus to Abbo of Fleury, brought with them knowledge of works which were being studied in Continental schools. Although monastic education played a leading role for the entire Anglo-Saxon period, it was in the second half of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that it reached its zenith, with its renewed importance and the presence of energetic masters such as thelwold and lfric. The indebtedness to Continental programs of study is evident at each step, beginning with the Disticha Catonis. Nevertheless, a number of texts initially designed for a Latin-speaking milieu appear to have been abandoned (for instance in the field of grammar) in favour of new teaching tools. Besides texts which were part of the standard curriculum, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts provide abundant evidence of other learning and teaching instruments, in particular those for a specialized class of laymen, the Old English lce, the healer or physician. Medicine occupies a relevant place in the book production of late Anglo-Saxon England and, in this field too, knowledge from very far afield was preserved and reshaped. All these essays, many by leading scholars in the various fields, explore these issues by analysing the actual manuscripts, their layout and contents. They show how miscellaneous collections of treatises in medieval codices had an internal logic, and highlight how crucial manuscripts are to the study of medieval culture. Edited By Patrizia Lendinara, Loredana Lazzari, Maria Amalia D'aronco. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. In English And Latin.