Creating and curating an archive: Bury St Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon past

This contribution explores the mechanisms by which the Benedictine foundation of Bury St Edmunds sought to legitimise and preserve their spurious pre-Conquest privileges and holdings throughout the Middle Ages. The archive is extraordinary in terms of the large number of surviving registers and cartularies which contain copies of Anglo-Saxon charters, many of which are wholly or partly in Old English. The essay charts the changing use to which these ancient documents were put in response to threats to the foundation's continued enjoyment of its liberties. The focus throughout the essay is to demonstrate how pragmatic considerations at every stage affects the development of the archive and the ways in which these linguistically challenging texts were presented, re-presented, and represented during the Abbey’s history

The Weinkrantzes and the Lindenbergers.

The text explains the entanglement of two German Jewish families whose members posed for a photograph on occasion of the wedding of Meta Lindenberger and Alfred Weinkrantz in Berlin, April 1921digitizedAlso included are a photograph and a short abstract of the Stein family, related to the Weinkrantz and Lindenberger families

Differential age effects on semantic and syntactic priming

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