Revisiting the Manuscript of the Lindisfarne Gospels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Editorial conventions xi
6. Illustrations xii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: The Gloss in Context
9. ‘A Good Woman’s Son’: Aspects of Aldred’s Agenda in Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels 13
10. Aldred: Glossator and Book Historian 37
11. The Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Benedictine Reform: Was Aldred Trained in the Southumbrian Glossing Tradition? 61
12. Maxims in Aldred’s Marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels 79
13. The Shape of Things to Come? Variation and Intervention in Aldred’s Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels 103
14. Part II: The Language of the Gloss
15. At the Forefront of Linguistic Change: The Noun Phrase Morphology of the Lindisfarne Gospels 153
16. Identifying the Author(s) of the Lindisfarne Gloss: Linguistic Variation as a Diagnostic for Determining Authorship 169
17. Simplification in Derivational Morphology in the Lindisfarne Gloss 189
18. Dauides sunu vs. filii david: The Genitive in the Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels 213
19. Null Subjects in the Lindisfarne Gospels as Evidence for Syntactic Variation in Old English 239
20. Revisiting the Manuscript of the Lindisfarne Gospels 257
21. Part III: Glossing Practice
22. Multiple Glosses with Present Tense Forms of OE beon ‘to be’ in Aldred’s Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels 289
23. A Study of Aldred’s Multiple Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels 301
24. The ‘Unglossed’ Words of the Lindisfarne Glosses 329
25. The Process of Glossing and Glossing as Process: Scholarship and Education in Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 361
26. Did Owun Really Copy from the Lindisfarne Gospels? Reconsideration of His Source Manuscript(s) 377
27. References 397
28. Index 423