39th International Congress on Medieval Studies

6‒9 May 2004

[First published on our first website on *19 April 2006, with updates on this second website]

At the 2004 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored one Session.  This was the second consecutive year in the resumption of our Sponsored Sessions at the Congress.  As customary, various of our Associates and Trustees participated in diverse ways at the Congress.  From this return, we maintained a continuous tradition of Sessions.

Session sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

“Medieval Manuscripts as Teaching Tools, Then and Now”

Organizer: Sharon M. Rowley (Christopher Newport University)

Presider: Carin Ruff (John Caroll University)

Presenters:

• Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “Introduction”

• Melinda J. Menzer (Furman University), “Why Read the Old English Benedictine Rule When You Don’t Know Old English?  Evidence from Latin Glosses in British Library Cotton MS. Faustina A.x”
  

  © The British Library Board. Cotton MS Faustina A X folio 106r. Within the chapter list of the Old English translation of the ‘Rule of Saint Benedict’.

• Robert Stevick (University of Washington ‒ Seattle), “Ælfric’s Grammar and British Library Royal MS. 15 B.xxii”
  

  ©The British Library Board, Royal MS 15 B xxii, folio 2r, opening opening Ælfric’s Latin Grammar in Old English

• Ronald E. Buckalew (Pennsylvania State University), “Ælfric’s Grammar as a Manuscript Teaching Tool”

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The full 2004 Congress program is archived as the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies.

The full set of Research Group Activities at the Congress is listed in our Congress Activities.

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