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, one of the editors of ''

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

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, Michelle P. Brown,

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, Helmut Gneuss, Nicholas Howe, Joyce Hill,

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, Clare Lees, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne, Leslie Webster and

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. 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

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, 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.

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

Bibliography

* Contains the first eleven Toller lectures. *

References

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