Anglo-Saxon - 17th Cent

Reconstructed page. This is a copy of Anglo-Saxonists, the biographical register compiled by Professor Carl T. Berkhout (Department of English, University of Arizona), whose original site at www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/ is no longer online. It was reconstructed in September 2026 from the copies preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for the Kemble website. The text is Professor Berkhout’s and is presented unaltered apart from the repair of internal links; the pages were captured at different dates and may be uneven in completeness. Every page is stored here; nothing is fetched from elsewhere. Contents

Anglo-Saxonists - 17th Century

General Works

Bennett, J. A. W. A History of Old English and Old Norse Studies in England from the Time of Francis Junius till the End of the Eighteenth Century. Doctoral thesis, Oxford University, 1938.
Butt, J. "The Facilities for Antiquarian Studies in the 17th Century." Essays and Studies 24 (1938), 64-80.
Douglas, David C. English Scholars, 1660-1730. 2nd ed. London, 1951.
Cook, Sr. Mary Joan. Developing Techniques in Anglo-Saxon Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century, as They Appear in the 'Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum' of William Somner. Doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 1962.
Fox, Levi, ed. English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London and New York, 1956.
Glass, Sandra A. "The Saxonists' Influence on Seventeenth-Century English Literature." Anglo-Saxon Scholarship. Ed. Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch. Boston, 1982. pp. 91-105.
Greenlee, Elizabeth. Origins of English Antiquarianism. Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1969.
Hetherington, M. S. The Beginnings of Old English Lexicography. Austin, TX, 1980.
Hetherington, M. Sue. "Old English Lexicography: the First Eleven Decades 1550-1659." Papers on Lexicography in Honor of Warren N. Cordell. Ed. J. E. Congleton et al. Terre Haute, IN, 1979. pp. 125-39.
Hetherinton, M. Sue. "The Recovery of the Anglo-Saxon Lexicon." Anglo-Saxon Scholarship. Ed. Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch. Boston, 1982. pp. 79-89.
Leinbaugh, Theodore H. "Ælfric's Sermo de Sacrificio in Die Pascae: Anglican Polemic in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Anglo-Saxon Scholarship. Ed. Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch. Boston, 1982. pp. 51-68.
Mendyk, Stan A. E. 'Speculum Britanniae': Regional Study, Antiquarianism, and Science in Britain to 1700. Toronto, Buffalo, and London, 1989.
Piggott, Stuart. "Antiquarian Thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." English Historical Thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ed. Levi Fox. London and New York, 1956. pp. 93-114.
Rosier, James L. "Lexicographical Genealogy in Old English." JEGP 65 (1966), 295-302.
Salmon, Vivian. "Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship: a Survey of Seventeenth-Century Achievements." The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries. Ed. Jan Noordegraaf et al. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 64. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1992. pp. 129-53.
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Alt- und Mittelenglisch in der lexikographischen Tradition des 17. Jahrhunderts." Festschrift für Karl Schneider. Ed. Ernst S. Dick and Kurt R. Jankowsky. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1982. pp. 169-85.
Tucker Brooke, C. F. "The Renascence of Germanic Studies in England, 1559-1689." PMLA 29 (1914), 135-51.
Turner, Alberta. "Another Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Poem." Modern Language Quarterly 9 (1948), 389-93.
Utley, Francis L. "Two Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Poems." Modern Language Quarterly 3 (1942), 243-61.
Wormald, Francis, and C. E. Wright, ed. The English Library before 1700: Studies in Its History. London, 1958.

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