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Alger N. Doane CONTACT INFORMATION: Professor of English Emeritus Department of English University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 USA
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS: Current area(s) of research: Manuscripts, orality and textuality, Norman biblical commentaries, Historia Scholastica, the Heliand Selected publications, recent and forthcoming: Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, vols. 7, 9,10, 11 (2002-04) Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (complete fiche facsimiles, with hard copy descriptionsof about 40 Anglo-Saxon manuscripts I am the general editor of the series, there are a number of describers, including myself) (with William P. Stoneman, Harvard) "Purloined Letters: the Twelfth Century Annotations in the Old English Hexateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius B. iv)" (under review at Cambridge University Press) WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES: Multilingualism in the Middle Ages: History of the Medieval Book: Both the projects listed above are intimately connected with this theme: the ASMF project is designed to produce a complete indexical corpus of ALL Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in existence, with complete scholarly, original descriptions. The book project is a detailed study of how one famous Anglo-Saxon book, an illustrated Hexateuch, was reused for new purposes in the 12th century. Medieval Chronicle Studies: Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION: Matthew T. Hussey: The Influence of Isidore of Seville's "Synonyma" in Anglo-Saxon England (a study based on intensive manuscript research on glosses and other types of evidence through four centuries) STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING: I'm currently involved in a team-project sponsored by the British Library to put onto CD (and later possibly online) a facsimile and edition of Cotton Claudius B. iv. MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT: The Exeter Book (PhD level) The Alliterative Tradition Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages (last two are MA level)
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