The Toller Lecture is an annual lecture at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...

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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 En ...

, 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 Rolf Hendrik Bremmer (born 13 August 1950, Zwolle) is a Dutch academic. He is professor of Old and Middle English, and extraordinary professor of Old Frisian, at Leiden University. Biography Rolf Bremmer's father, also named Rolf Hendrik Bremme ...

, George Brown,

Michelle P. Brown Michelle P. Brown is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was previously (1986–2004) Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She has been a historical c ...

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 lit ...

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 langua ...

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 Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language, and Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Education Lees earned her Bachelor of Arts and master's degree at the University of Leeds befo ...

, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne, 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 late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqu ...

, 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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