Archived issues

Bulletin of John Rylands University Library of Manchester

78/2 (1996)
1: G. Rex Smith & Moshalleh al-Moraekhi: The Arabic Papyri of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (5-232)

78/3 (1996)
The Church of the East: Life and Thought
[Special issue edited by J.F. Coakley and K. Parry]
1: J.A. McGuckin: Nestorius and the political factions of fifth-century Byzantium: factors in his personal downfall (7-21)
2: S.P. Brock: The 'Nestorian' Church: a lamentable misnomer (23-35)
3: A.V. Williams: Zoroastrians and Christians in Sasanian Iran (37-53)
4: Victoria L. Erhart: The Church of the East during the period of the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs (55-71)
5: A. Gelston: The origin of the anaphora of Nestorius: Greek or Syriac? (73-86)
6: Luise Abramowski: Die Liturgische Homilie des Ps. Narses mit dem Meßbekenntnis und einem Theodor-Zitat (87-100)
7: J. Habbi: L'Importance de la culture dans l'Église d'Orient Assyro-Chaldéenne (101-110)
8: S.H. Griffith: The Muslim philosopher Al-Kindi and his Christian readers: three Arab Christian texts on 'The dissipation of sorrows' (111-127)
9: E.C.D. Hunter: The Church of the East in Central Asia (129-142)
10: K. Parry: Images of the Chutrch of the East: the evidence from Central Asia and China (143-162)
11: J.-M. Fiey: Comment l'Occident en vint à parler de 'Chaldéens' (163-170)
12: Mar Aprem: Mar Narsai Press (171-178)
13: J.F. Coakley: The Church of the East since 1914 (179-197)

79/1 (1997)
1: P.A. Holder: A Roman military diploma from Ravenglass, Cumbria (3-41)
2: Joyce Hill: Translaing the tradition: manuscripts, models and methodologies in the composition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies (43-65)
3: Jeffrey H. Denton: Towards a new edition of the Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate P. Nicholai IV circa A.D. 129 (67-79)
4: Fanni Bogdanow: The Manchester-Oxford, Bonn and Yale codices and their place in the MSS tradition of the Queste del Saint Graal (81-107)
5: Henry Summerson: An English Bible and other books belonging to Henry IV (109-115)
6: Leah Scragg: Edward Blount and the prefatory material to the First Folio of Shakespeare (117-126)
7: H. Phillips: Crossing the divide, dividing the cross: religious and secular cultures in seventeenth-century France (127-142)
8: Kenneth G.C. Newport: Revelation 13 and the papal antichrist in eighteenth-century England: a study in New Testament eisegesis
9: Colin Lees & Alex Robertson: Early students and the 'University of the Busy': The Quay Street years of Owens College 1851-1870 (161-194)
10: J.L. North: 'I sought a colleague': James Hope Moulton, papyrologist, and Edward Lee Hicks, epigraphist, 1903-1906 (195-206)

79/2 (1997)
1: Katrin Kogman-Appel: The picture cycles of the Rylands Haggadah and the so-called Brother Haggadah and their relation to the western tradition of Old Testament illustrationm (3-20; followed by 23 plates)
2: Philip Morgan: Gentry Households in fifteenth-century Cheshire (21-26)
3: Barry Cooper: Catalogue of pre-1900 music manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (27-101)
4: G.A. Matheson: The Basil Dean Archive in the John Rylands University Library (103-230)

79/3 (1997)
Anglo-Saxon Texts and Contexts
[Special issue edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker]
1: Gale R. Owen-Crocker: Introduction (11-13)
2: Susan Rosser: Æthelthryth: a conventional saint? (15-24)
3: Jacqueline A. Stodnick: Cynewulf as author: medieval reality or modern myth? (25-39)
4: Paul Anthony Booth: King Alfred versus Beowulf: the re-education of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy (41-66)
5: Howard Shilton: The nature of Beowulf's dragon (67-77)
6: John Highfield: Mod in Old English 'secular' poetry: an indicator of aristocratic class (79-92)
7: Maria Butcher: A homily for the nativity of the Virgin Mary (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 367 Part II, fos 11-16): edition and translation (93-118)
8: Joana Proud: The Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon and its manuscript context (119-132)
9: Loredana Teresi: An electronic investigation of the language in MSS London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A.ix and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 302 (133-148)
10: Wendy E.J. Collier: A thirteenth-century user of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (149-165)
11: Roland Allen: A stag stands on ceremony: evaluating some of the Sutton Hoo finds (167-175)
12: Margaret Worthington: Wat's Dyke: an archaeological and historical enigma (177-196)
13: Sheila M. Sharp: England, Europe and the Celtic world: King Athelstan's foreign policy (197-220)
14: Maggie Bailey: Towns and markets in a regional administrative landscape: the development of the late Saxon urban network in East Anglia (221-249)
15: Maria A. FitzGerald: Insular dress in early medieval Ireland (251-261)
16: Mark Atheron: The image of the temple in the Psychomania and late Anglo-Saxon literature (263-285)

80/1 (1998)
1: David A. Hinton: Anglo-Saxon smiths and myths (3-21)
2: David Hill: The Bayeux tapestry: the case of the phantom fleet (23-31)
3: Fanni Bogdanow: The importance of the Bologna and Imola fragments for the reconstruction of the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal (33-64)
4: Henry Rack: Between church and sect: the origins of Methodism in Manchester (65-87)
5: Kenneth G.C. Newport and Gareth Lloyd: George Bell and early Methodist enthusiasm: a new manuscript source from the Manchester archives (89-101)
6: Terry Wyke: Authenticating the text: a footnote in Mary Barton (103-123)
7: C. Lees and A. B. Robertson: Community access to Owens College, Manchester: a neglected aspect of university history (125-152)
8: Diana K. Jones: Jeremiah James Colmn (1830-1898) and the Protestant ethic thesis: a biographical study (153-171)
9: Jan Branson and Don Miller: Abraham Farrar (1861-1944): donor of the Farrar Collection of books on the education of the deaf and cognate subjects in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Deansgate (173-196)
10: T.E. van Spanje: Contextualization: hermeneutical remarks (197-217)

80/2 (1998)
1: (Guide to John Rylands University Library holdings)

80/3 (1998)
Representation, Gender and Experience
[Special issue edited by Grace M. Jantzen]
1: Grace M. Jantzen: Preface (3-4)
2: Jacqueline Suthren Hirst: Telling Sita's story: whose experience? whose representation? (5-22)
3: Kirsti Evans: Contemporary Devadasis: empowered auspicious women or exploited prostitutes (23-38)
4: Monry Joy: The bounty of wisdom: images of the feminine in Buddhism and Christianity (39-63)
5: Daviel Boyarin: Anna (O)rthodox: Bertha Poppenheim and the making of Jewish feminism (65-87)
6: Seán McLoughlin: 'An underclass in Purdah'? Discrepant representations of identity and the experiences of young-British-Asian-Muslim-women (89-106)
7: Çigdem Balim-Harding: Representations of Turkish women: objects of social engineering projects or individuals? (107-127)
8: Jane Shaw: Gender and the 'nature' of religion: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters and their place in Enlightenment philosophy of religion (129-145)
9: Kate Cooper: The voice of the victim: gender, representation and early Christian martyrdom (147-157)
10: Conrad Leyser: Vulnerability and power: the early Christian rhetoric of masculine authority (159-173)
11: David Morgan: Representation, experience and masculinity (175-193)
12: Steve Nolan: Worshipping (wo)men, liturgical representation and feminist film theory: an Alien/s identificiation (195-213)
13: Jermey Carrette: Male theology in the bedroom: Foucault, de Sade and the body (215-233)
14: Graham Ward: Transcorporeality: the ontological scandal (235-252)
15: Elaine Graham: 'Only bodies suffer': embodiment, representation and the practice of ethics (253-271)
16: Grace M. Jantzen: Reflections on the looking glass: religion, culture and gender in the academy (273-294)

81/1 (1999)
1: Richard W. Pfaff: The Anglo-Saxon bishop and his book (3-24)
2: Tim Thornton: Opposition drama and the resolution of disputes in early Tudor England: Cardinal Wolsey and the Abbot of Chester (25-47)
3: Susan E. James: A new source for Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew (49-62)
4: Harriet Devine Jump: 'My dearest Geraldine': Maria Jane Jewsbury's letters (63-72)
5: David Blamires: Cultural cross-currents in Gustav Nieritz's Der Quäker (1849) (73-83)
6: Colin Lees and Alex Robertson: Manchester University and the City: aspects of policy-making in higher education, 1900-1930 (85-109)
7: Kathleen Harryman: 'By my travels': the doctor's speeches in some north-western pace-egging plays (Manchester Middle English Seminar: Four Postgraduate Papers) (113-25)
8: Kathryn Warner: The provenance and early ownership of John Rylands MS English 1 (Manchester Middle English Seminar: Four Postgraduate Papers) (127-40)
9: Lisa van Gelder: 'Allthynge hath ende': the linking significance of doomsday within the York, Towneley, N-Town and Chester mystery cycles (Manchester Middle English Seminar: Four Postgraduate Papers) (141-54)
10: Robert Clifford: 'A man of gret auctoritie': the search for truth in textual authority in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame (Manchester Middle English Seminar: Four Postgraduate Papers) (155-65)

81/2 (1999)
1: J.K. Elliott: The Biblical manuscripts of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (3-50)
2: J.B. Shiel: The papers of T.W. Manson (51-165)

81/3 (1999)
Text and image: studies in the French illustrated book from the Middle Ages to the present day
[Special issue edited by David J. Adams and Adrian Armstrong]
1: David J. Adams and Adrian Armstrong: Introduction (3-6)
2: Lori J. Walters: Female figures in the illustrated manuscripts of Le conte du Graal and its Continuations: ladies, saints, spectators, mediators (7-54)
3: Alison Stones: The Grail in Rylands MS French 1 and its sister manuscripts (55-95)
4: Martine Meuwese: Three illustrated Prose Lancelots from the same atelier (97-125)
5: Peter Ainsworth: A Parisian in New York: Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.804 revisisted (127-151)
6: Jane H.M. Taylor: Le Chevalier des Dames du Dolent Fortuné: image and text, manuscript and print (153-176)
7: Mary Beth Winn: Printing and reading the Book of Hours: lessons from the borders (177-204)
8: Cynthia J. Brown: Textual and iconographical ambivalence in the late medieval representation of women (205-39)
9: Adrian Armstrong: 'Regardez bien tout au long les histoyres': illustration and self-conscious writing in Jean Bouchet's Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin (241-68)
10: Alison Saunders: Visual versus verbal: changing uses of imagery in sixteenth-century French verse (269-98)
11: Henry Phillips: Sacred text and sacred image: France in the seventeenth century (299-319)
12: Nicholas Cronk and Jenny Mander: Delilah's progress: the illustration of 'Manon Lescaut' in 1753 and 1928 (321-60)
13: David J. Adams: Theme and technique in the 'Oudry' edition of La Fontaine's 'Fables' (361-84)
14: Penny Brown: Images of instruction and delight: illustrations in nineteenth-century French children's literature (385-415)
15: Kristin Zimmerman: Text and image in Robbe-Grillet's 'La Belle Captive' (417-37)

82/1 (2000)
1: Nicholas Howe: An Angle on this earth: sense of place in Anglo-Saxon England (3-28)
2: Stacy Boldrick: An encounter between death and an abbess: the mortuary roll of Elisabeth 'sConincs, Abbess of Forest (Manchester, John Rylands Library, Latin MS 114) (29-48)
3: Catherine Danter: The eighteenth-century rebuilding of Lyme Park, Cheshire, and the Leoni Collection at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Deansgate (49-80)
4: Gareth Lloyd: Charles Wesley and his biographers: an exercise in Methodist hagiography (81-99)
5: Dongho Chun: Collecting pieces of oneself: Sir John Leciester's scrapbooks in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (101-13)
6: Timothy Larsen: Joseph Barker and popular biblical criticism in the nineteenth century (115-134)
7: James L. Spates: John Ruskin's dark star: new lights on his life based on the unpublished biographical materials and resaerch of Helen Gill Viljoen (135-91)
8: Ian Rogerson: Alfred Nutt: a fine Victorian publisher (193-215)
9: Brenda J. Scragg: Mrs Rylands and the Spencer library (217-23)
10: Colin Lees and Alex Robertson: Characteristics of professional life in the first of the civic universities, 1851-1918 (225-50)

82/2-3 (2000)
1: Peter McNiven: The John Rylands Library, 1972-2000 (3-80)
2: Dr Frank Taylor, 1910-2000: two obituary tributes (81-4)
3: Peter McNiven: An illustrated catalogue of 'A Scholars' Paradise: a Centenary Exhibtion of Notable Books and Manuscripts', 30 May to 3 November 2000 at the John Rylands Library (85-254)