The Toller Lecture is an annual lecture at the

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Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)
It is named after

Thomas Northcote Toller Thomas Northcote Toller (1844–1930) was the first professor of English language at Manchester and one of the editors of ''An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary'' which had been begun by Joseph Bosworth Joseph Bosworth (1788 – 27 May 1876) was an Eng ...

, one of the editors of ''

An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary ''An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary'' is a dictionary of Old English, a language that is also known as Anglo-Saxon. Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially in earlier times) been considered the definitive lexicon for ...

''. Notable lecturers have included Janet Bateley, the first Toller lecturer, Rolf Bremmer,

George Brown George Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment * George Loring Brown (1814–1889), American landscape painter * George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), Scottish novelist * George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canadian historian and editor * G ...

, Michelle P. Brown,

Roberta Frank Roberta Frank (born 1941) is an American philologist specializing in Old English and Old Norse language and literature. She is Marie Borroff Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Career Frank received a B.A. in comparative literatur ...

Helmut Gneuss Helmut Gneuss (born 29 October 1927) is a German scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Latin manuscripts and literature. Academic career Gneuss is emeritus professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he occupied the chair for English lang ...

Nicholas Howe Nicholas Howe (1953–2006) was an American scholar of Old English literature and culture, whose ''Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England'' (1989) was an important contribution to the study of Old English literature and historiography. ...

, Joyce Hill,

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity Colleg ...

, Clare Lees, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Paul Szarmach,

Elaine Treharne Elaine Treharne was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies an ...

, Leslie Webster and

Barbara Yorke Barbara Yorke FRHistS FSA (born 1951, Barbara Anne Elizabeth Troubridge) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in many subtopics, including 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism. She is currently emeritus professor of early Medieval histor ...

. In the past, most Toller lectures were published in the ''Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester''; while a collection containing the revised and updated lectures from 1987 to 1997, together with new essays on Toller and the Toller Collection in the

John Rylands Library The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a Victorian era, late-Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. The library, which opened to t ...

, was published in 2003. However, with the establishment of the John Rylands Research Institute, the decision was made to prioritise the Special Collections of the Library in a revamped ''Bulletin of the John Rylands Library'', and Toller lectures were no longer published there. It was therefore decided to publish recent Toller lectures as a separate collection which appeared in 2017.

Gale Owen-Crocker Gale Owen-Crocker (born 16 January 1947) is a Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester, England. Before her retirement she was Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Early life and ...

, "Introduction", in Insley and Owen-Crocker 2017, p. xiv.

Bibliography

* Contains the first eleven Toller lectures. *

References

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