The Toller Lecture
The Toller Lecture is held every March and is open to all, free of charge. The Lecture is published in the Spring volume of the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester the following year. Transcripts of some of the Memorial Lectures are available at a cost of £3 including post and packing. The topics chosen for the lectures reflect the interdisciplinary research ethos of the centre:
The 2008 Toller Lecture
Dr Gillian Fellows-Jensen (University of Copenhagen)
title to be announced
Monday, 3 March 2008
2007 Professor Allen J. Frantzen, , Loyola University, Chicago
Performance and Old English Poetry: Theatre and the Literature of the Anglo-Saxons
2006 Professor Roy Liuzza (University of Tennessee)
'Time in Anglo-Saxon England'
2005 Professor Elaine Treharne (University of Leicester)
'The Politics of English, 1000 - 1200'
2004 Paul E. Szarmach (Western Michigan University)
'Anglo-Saxon Texts in Search of the Beginning'
2003 Patrick Wormald (University of Oxford)
'The Advent of the English: Migration as Historical Event'
2002 Professor Peter Baker (University of Virginia)
'Toller at School Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller and the Progress of Old English Lexicography in the Nineteenth Century'
2001 Professor Simon Keynes (University of Cambridge)
The Charters of King Athelstan and the Kingship of the English
2000 Professor Mechthild Gretch (University of Göttingen)
Winchester Vocabulary and Standard Old English: The Role of the Vernacular in Late Anglo-Saxon England
1999 Professor Nicholas Howe (Ohio State University)
An Angle on this Earth: Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England Available
1998 Professor Richard Pfaff (University of North Carolina)
The Anglo-Saxon Bishop and his Book
1997 Dr David Hinton (University of Southampton)
Smiths and Myths Available
1996 Professor Joyce Hill (University of Leeds)
Translating the Tradition: Manuscripts, Models and Methodology in the Composition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies Available
1995 Professor Richard Bailey (University of Newcastle)
'What mean these stones?' Some Aspects of Pre-Norman Sculpture in Cheshire and Lancashire Out of print
1994 Professor George Hardin Brown (Stanford University)
The Dynamics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England Out of print
1993 Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (University of Notre Dame)
Source, Method, Theory, Practice: on Reading two Old English Verse Texts Available
1992 Professor Roberta Frank (University of Toronto)
The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet
1990 Professor Michael Lapidge (formerly University of Cambridge, now University of Notre Dame)
Textual Criticism and the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Available
1989 Professor Helmut Gneuss (University of Munich)
The Study of Language in Anglo-Saxon England Out of print
1988 Professor Audrey L. Meaney (MacQuarie University)
Scyld Scefing and the Dating of Beowulf - Again Available.
1987 Professor Janet Bately (King's College, London)
Manuscript Layout and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Available