What is it about?
This book is about the study of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and printing it in the early modern period 1566 to 1705. It began because the Elizabethans wanted to use Anglo-Saxon practices to bolster their reforms of Church and State. These motivations continued but gradually scholars became interested in it for its own sake.
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Why is it important?
This book offers something new, a view of how study of Old English developed from the perspective of who printed what and when.
Perspectives
I fell in love with studying Old English as a university undergraduate and working on this book enabled me to see where that interest came from through the centuries and how it developed.
Peter Lucas
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon to 1705, April 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004516397_012.
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