
Textiles, Text, Intertext
Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Boydell Press
Published on 18. March 2016
Book
Hardback
273 pages
978-1-78327-073-6 (ISBN)
Description
Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages.
The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts, and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and intertextual relationships between text and textile.
MAREN CLEGG HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys, Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne.
The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts, and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and intertextual relationships between text and textile.
MAREN CLEGG HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys, Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne.
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Owen-Crocker is held in high esteem and affection by scholars and researchers in many fields and . . . her enthusiasm and encouragement have inspired researchers both within and outside traditional academia. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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12 s/w Abbildungen
12 b/w illus.
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78327-073-6 (9781783270736)
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MAREN CLEGG HYER teaches at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. She specializes in researching textiles and other elements of material culture in the literary imagery of early medieval England. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. MAREN CLEGG HYER teaches at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. She specializes in researching textiles and other elements of material culture in the literary imagery of early medieval England. Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians.
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Introduction - Maren Clegg Hyer
A Personal Recollection - Robin Netherton
List of Publications of Gale R. Owen Crocker
The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period - Louise Sylvester
Opus what? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and Their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800-1400 - Elizabeth Coatsworth
Intertextuality in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Form and Function of Dress and Clothing - Michael Lewis
Birds of a Feather: Magpies in the Bayeux Tapestry? - Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes - Christina Lee
Text, Textile, Context: Aldhelm and Word-weaving as Metaphor in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature - Maren Clegg Hyer
The Weft of War in the Exeter Book Riddles - Jill Frederick
Fyrene dracan in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Marilina Cesario
Old English in the Margins - Donald G Scragg
Weaving Words on the Ruthwell Cross - Catherine E. Karkov
Fates of the Apostles and Tituli - Paul E Szarmach
Weaving and Interweaving: The Textual Traditions of Two of AElfric's Supplementary Homilies - Joyce Hill
Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv - Elaine Treharne
Redacting Harold Godwinson: the Vita Haroldi and William of Malmesbury - Martin Foys
A Personal Recollection - Robin Netherton
List of Publications of Gale R. Owen Crocker
The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period - Louise Sylvester
Opus what? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and Their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800-1400 - Elizabeth Coatsworth
Intertextuality in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Form and Function of Dress and Clothing - Michael Lewis
Birds of a Feather: Magpies in the Bayeux Tapestry? - Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes - Christina Lee
Text, Textile, Context: Aldhelm and Word-weaving as Metaphor in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature - Maren Clegg Hyer
The Weft of War in the Exeter Book Riddles - Jill Frederick
Fyrene dracan in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Marilina Cesario
Old English in the Margins - Donald G Scragg
Weaving Words on the Ruthwell Cross - Catherine E. Karkov
Fates of the Apostles and Tituli - Paul E Szarmach
Weaving and Interweaving: The Textual Traditions of Two of AElfric's Supplementary Homilies - Joyce Hill
Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv - Elaine Treharne
Redacting Harold Godwinson: the Vita Haroldi and William of Malmesbury - Martin Foys