Early Anglo-Saxon Studies and Legal Scholarship in the Renaissance

Abstract

I begin with the acceptance of Laurence Nowell as the father of Anglo-Saxon studies in Renaissance England. His claim was recognized by his contemporary Camden, who bestowed upon him the title of ‘the first restorer of the Saxon language’, and the scholarship of Robin Flower and Albert H. Marckwardt has reminded us of the propriety, indeed the legality, of that claim. My purpose in this paper is to trace Anglo-Saxon studies among the legal scholars who came after Nowell and estabhshed a continuous tradition to carry forward Nowell's pioneer work. I want to comment on this tradition and to suggest reasons for it and some of the implications of it.

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