Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49932-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Reihe: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse.

Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Henvey, Megan

Doviak, Amanda

Hawkes, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Plates

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak

Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World

1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture

Matthias Friedrich

2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England

Rachael Vause

3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’

Jane Hawkes

4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland

Megan Henvey

5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis

Ross McIntire

Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World

6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross

Amanda Doviak

7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins

Cher Casey

8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century

Nino Simonishvili

9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne

John Mitchell

10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral

Elisa A. Foster

11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom

Lesley Milner

Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms

12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts

Aideen M. Ireland

13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland

Edel Bhreathnach

14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation

Alison Elizabeth Killilea

15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism

Tarren Andrews

16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906

Katherine Cross

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Megan Henvey, Department of History of Art, University of York completed her Ph.D. in 2021 on the historical, historiographical, iconographic, and theological and liturgical contexts of the ‘Northern/Ulster’ Group of Irish High crosses.

Amanda Doviak, Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2021-22, University of York, completed her Ph.D. on the figural iconographies of Viking-age stone crosses in northern England in 2021. Her research interests include artistic exchanges and their intersections with early medieval liturgical developments.

Professor Jane Hawkes, Art History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, works on the cross-cultural contexts of the early medieval art of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the sculptural arts and their historiography.