Writing in Context

Erik Kwakkel teaches at Leiden University, where he directs the research project ‘Turning over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’.

• Preface List of Figures and Plates Abbreviations Writing in Context: Introduction (Erik Kwakkel)Mercian Manuscripts: The Implications of the Staffordshire Hoard, other Recent Discoveries, and the ‘New Materiality’ (Michelle P. Brown)An Insular Copy of Pliny’s Naturalis historia (Leiden VLF 4 fols 4-33) (Mary Garrison) A Giant Among Scribes: Colophon and Iconographical Programme in the Eadui Gospels (Francis Newton) Reading the Unreadable: Lay Literacy and Negotiation of Text in Anglo-Saxon England (Kathryn A. Lowe) English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest: Continuity and Change in the Palaeography of Books and Book Collections (Teresa Webber) Hidden in Plain Sight: Continental Scribes in Rochester Cathedral Priory, 1075-1150 (Erik Kwakkel) Notes on the Contributors Colour Plates Index of Manuscripts General Index

‘This collection represents a very valuable contribution to our understanding of early book history in its most capacious sense.’ Elaine Treharne, Professor of English, Stanford University ‘This is a strong collection of essays. The broad topic of the materiality of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman manuscripts is capacious enough to happily embrace the diversity on offer here and yet tight enough to give some kind of chronological, geographical, and methodological cohesion. […] All in all, this is an interesting volume that contributes to a burgeoning field of manuscript materiality in relation to medieval studies.’ Jonathan Wilcox, Professor of English, University of Iowa