Crossing Boundaries

Name: Crossing Boundaries | Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World

Eric Cambridge Jane Hawkes(Editor)

Oxbow Books (Publisher)

Published on 30. April 2017

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320 pages

978-1-78570-307-2 (ISBN)

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Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages.

Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, and from St Cuthbert's coffin to the design of its final resting place, the Romanesque cathedral at Durham. Important thematic surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers interacting with the political and intellectual concerns of the wider Insular and continental world.

Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, revealing how radically present perceptions shape our understanding of the past, how recent archaeological work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional categorisation of the Vikings as 'incomers', and how recontextualising Viking material culture can lead to unexpected insights into famous historical episodes such as King Edgar's boat trip on the Dee.

Recent landmark finds, notably the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also published here for the first time in comprehensive analyses which will remain the fundamental discussions of these spectacular objects for many years to come.This book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in medieval culture.

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[...] a collection of excellent essays that make a significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies. * Parergon * The collection is stimulating and thought-provoking, and undoubtedly some of the more substantial contributions will prove to be seminal. In its totality, the collection contributes in depth and breadth to the refining of our understanding of the early medieval world. One can only hope that its methodology will prove inspirational to an even wider field. * Early Medieval Europe * A satisfying and scholarly compendium. * Current Archaeology * Overall, there is much her o finterst to anyone with a broad interest in early medieval art and culture in Viking-Age prison... [ there is ] much that will consildate, develop and enhance how we understand the early medeival world in the North. * Medieval Archaeology *

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Preface

List of Illustrations

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Introduction: Crossing Boundaries, by Jane Hawkes

Part I. New perspectives on insular sculpture and art

1. The riddle of the Ruthwell Cross: audience, intention and originator reconsidered

Clare Stancliffe

2. Heads you lose

Rosemary Cramp

3. Depiction of martyrdom in Anglo-Saxon art and literature: contexts and contrasts

Elizabeth Coatsworth

4. Crucifixion iconography on early medieval sculpture in Wales

Nancy Edwards

5. Pictish relief sculpture: some problems of interpretation

George Henderson

6. Reviewing the relationship between Pictish and Mercian art fifty years on

Isabel Henderson

Part II. Objects and meanings

7. The Santa Sabina crucifixion panel: 'between two living creatures you will be known' on Good Friday, at 'Hierusalem' in fifth-century Rome

Eamonn O Carragain

8. The body in the box: the iconography of the Cuthbert Coffin

Jane Hawkes

9. Reading the Trinity in the Harley Psalter

Catherine Karkov

10. Wundorsmi?a geweorc: a Mercian sword-pommel from the Beckley area, Oxfordshire

Leslie Webster

11. A Scandinavian gold brooch from Norfolk

James Graham-Campbell

12. A glimpse of the heathen Norse in Lincolnshire

John Hines

13. Archaeological evidence for local liturgical practices: the lead plaques from Bury St Edmunds

Helen Gittos

Part III. Settlements, sites and structures

14. The importance of being Viking

Deirdre O'Sullivan

15. A tale of two cemeteries: Viking burials at Cumwhitton and Carlisle, Cumbria

Caroline Paterson

16. Transactions on the Dee: the 'exceptional' collection of early sculpture from St John's, Chester

Paul Everson and David Stocker

17. Whitby before the mid-seventh century: some ways forward?

Lorna Watts

18. Looking at, and for, inscribed stones: a note from the Brough of Birsay, Orkney

Christopher D. Morris

19. An apsidal building in Brixworth churchyard, Northamptonshire

David Parsons

20. Designing and redesigning Durham Cathedral

Eric Cambridge

Part IV. Constructing meanings

21. The hero's journey in Bede's Ecclesiastical History: the case of King Edwin

Colm O'Brien

22. Furnishing Heorot

Gale Owen-Crocker

23. A miracle of St Hilda in a migrating manuscript

A.I. Doyle

24. A dastardly deed by Ranulph Flambard, Bishop of Durham?

Lindsay Allason-Jones and David Heslop

25. Varieties of language-contact in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts

John Frankis

26. Flodibor rex Francorum

Herman Moisl

27. Lexical heritage in Northumberland: a toponymic field-walk

Diana Whaley

Richard N. Bailey publications, compiled by Derek Craig

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