Art and Worship in the Insular World

Papers in Honour of Elizabeth Coatsworth
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46699-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 889 g

A monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book.

In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp.

Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Owen-Crocker, Gale

Clegg Hyer, Maren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Rosemary J. Cramp

Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times

Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Contributors

Introduction

Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer

part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool

1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles

Donncha MacGabhann

2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts

Christina Lee

3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F

Gale R. Owen-Crocker

4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England

Maren Clegg Hyer

5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey

Penelope Walton Rogers

6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries

Frances Pritchard

7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography

Alexandra Lester-Makin

part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript

8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture

Jane Hawkes

9 The Thread of Ornament

Catherine E. Karkov

10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire

David A. Hinton

11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition

Éamonn Ó Carragáin

12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction?

Richard N. Bailey

13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised

Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss

Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes)

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gale R. Owen-Crocker, BA PhD (Newcastle-on-Tyne) FSA, Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Her books include Dress in Anglo-Saxon England and The Bayeux Tapestry.

Maren Clegg Hyer BA MA PhD (University of Toronto), Professor at Valdosta State University. Books include The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World and its subsequent volumes on built environment, water environments, and sense and feeling in the material world of the early English peoples.