Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Age

with Professor Michelle Brown
(Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library)

at Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo (map)
on Saturday 24th September 2005

This study-day will examine the alchemy of change brought about by the coming of Christian literacy to Anglo-Saxon England through some of the remarkable books and documents that have survived. These include the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Benedictional of St Ethelwold, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Beowulf. Their relationship to other media, such as the Sutton Hoo metalwork and the Ruthwell Cross, will be explored and some volumes will be excavated through the 'archaeology of the book' and interpreted in their historical and social contexts. .

Professor Michelle Brown is a Lay Canon and Chapter Member of St Paul's Cathedral; Outreach Officer for the British Library; Visiting Professor, University of Leeds; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Senior Research Fellow, School of Advanced Studies and Courtauld Institute, London; and a freelance author, lecturer, and media consultant

Alexander, J. J. G., Insular Manuscripts, 6th to the 9th Century (London 1978)
Brown, M. P., A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London 1990, 1994, 2nd ed. 1999)
Brown, M. P., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London 1991)
Brown, M. P., Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: a Glossary of Technical Terms (London 1994)
Brown, M. P., The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts (London 1998)
Brown, M. P. & P. Lovett, The British Library Historical Source-Book for Scribes (London 1999)
Brown, M. P., Painted Labyrinth: the world of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London 2003)
Brown, M. P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe [monograph] (London 2003)
Brown, M. P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London 2003)
Brown, M. P., How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland (Oxford forthcoming)
Brown, M. P., Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London forthcoming)
Dodwell, C. R., Anglo-Saxon Art: a New Perspective (Manchester 1982)
Hawkes, J. & S.Mills, (eds) Northumbria’s Golden Age (Stroud 1999)
Henderson, G., From Durrow to Kells, the Insular Gospel-books 650-800, (London 1987)
Kendrick, T. D., Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (London 1938)
Ker, N., A Guide to Anglo-Saxon Sites (London 1982)
Levison, W., England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (Oxford 1946)
Mayr-Harting, H., The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford 1977)
Meehan, B., The Book of Kells (London 1994)
Meehan, B., The Book of Durrow (Dublin 1996)
Nordenfalk, C., Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting (London 1977)
Prescott, A., The Benedictional of St Ethelwold (London 1999)
Temple, E., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, 900-1066 (London1976)
Turner, D. H., L. Webster & J. M. Backhouse (eds), The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art, 966-1066 (London 1984)
Webster, L., & J. M. Backhouse (eds), The Making of England, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900 (London 1991)
Wilson, D. M., Anglo-Saxon Art (London 1984)
Youngs, S. (ed.), ‘The Work of Angels’, Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th Centuries AD (London 1989)

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