The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84383-194-5
Verlag: BOYDELL PR

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Publications of the Manchester

The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.

The cross in early medieval England was so ubiquitous as to become invisible to the modern eye: it played an innovative role in Anglo-Saxon culture, evident in art, architecture, material culture, literature, ritual, medicine, andpopular practice. The essays in this volume move us from the place of the cross in the origins of Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Saxon church, to its place in the expansion of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms both within and beyond England. They reach back to the sources, both material and textual, of Early Christian Rome and Jerusalem, and forward to the visionary cross of the Last Judgement. Perhaps most importantly, throughout they challenge existing notions of the development of Anglo-Saxon sculpture, the patronage and audiences of Anglo-Saxon texts, the use of sources, physical and cultural geography and the Anglo-Saxon imagination. In doing so they make important contributions not only to our understanding of Anglo-Saxon England and the place of the cross within it, but also to our understanding of the place of Anglo-Saxon England within the medieval world.

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor of Art at Miami University.
SARAH L. KEEFER is Professor of English at Trent University.
KAREN L. JOLLY is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

Contributors: IAN WOOD, ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, INGE B. MILFULL, KAREN LOUISE JOLLY, DAVID F. JOHNSON, KAROLYN KINANE, JANE ROBERTS, CALVIN B. KENDALL, ELAINE TREHARNE, NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karkov, Catherine E.

Larratt Keefer, Sarah

Jolly, Karen Louise

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rumble, Alexander R.

Kendall, Calvin B.

Johnson, David F.

Treharne, Elaine

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Wood, Ian Nicholas

Milfull, Inge B

Roberts, Jane

Jolly, Karen Louise

Kinane, Karolyn

Higham, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Constantinian Crosses in Northumbria - Ian Nicholas Wood
The Cross in the West Riding of Yorkshire - Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cross in English Place-Names: Vocabulary and Usage - Alexander R. Rumble
Hymns to the Cross: Contexts for the Reception of Vexilla Regis prodeunt - Inge B Milfull
Tapping the Power of the Cross: Who and for Whom? - Karen Louise Jolly
The Crux Usualis as Apotropaic Weapon in Anglo-Saxon England - David F. Johnson
The Cross as Interpretive Guide for Aelfric's Homilies and Saints' Lives - Karolyn Kinane
Guthlac of Crowland and the Seals of the Cross - Jane Roberts
From Sign to Vision: the Ruthwell cross and the Dream of the Rood - Calvin B. Kendall
'Hiht waes geniwad': Rebirth in The Dream of the Rood - Elaine Treharne
The Cross in Cambro-Latin Historical Writing in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries - Nicholas Higham

Über Autor(innen)

Jolly, Karen Louise
Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

Jolly, Karen Louise
Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

Karkov, Catherine E.
CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds.

Johnson, David F.
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.