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The art, literature and material culture of the medieval world : transition, transformation and taxonomy /

Other Authors: Hawkes, Jane, Herman, Melissa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Middle Ages
Art, Medieval
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Interrogating the bastard children of change: an introduction to the critical terminology of transition, transformation and taxonomy / Meg Boulton and Melissa Herman with Jane Hawkes
  • 2. Observations on the changing Middle Ages / Colum Hourihane
  • 3. The archaeology of transition: rethinking medieval material culture and social change / Aleksandra McClain
  • 4. Ethnic identities in transition: domestic and social practice in later medieval CoÌ⤯ba, Spain / D.A. Lenton 5. Becoming Christian, being Christian in early medieval Europe / Neil Christie
  • 6. 'Hail the conquering hero': coming and going at Ruthwell: adventus and transition / Jane Hawkes
  • 7. St Everilda: evidence for a saint's cult in transition / Philippa Turner
  • 8. Relics and riches: familiarizing the unknown in a fourteenth-century pilgrimage account from Ireland / Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton
  • 9. Ends of empire and the earth: themes of transition and the Orkney Islands from antiquity to Bede / Diarmuid Scully
  • 10. When is a hroc not a hroc? When it is a crawe or a hrefn! A case-study in recovering Old English folk-taxonomies / Eric Lacey
  • 11. Settlements in transition: where are the wics in Old English poetry? / Michael D.J. Bintley
  • 12. The aesthetics of transition on the Franks Casket / Victoria Symons
  • 13. Transitions of authority: the Joseph cycle in the sculpture series of Salisbury Cathedral Chapter House / ZoeÌ̂ Dumelow
  • 14. Embroidered stones: considering the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon skeuomorphs and the Kirkdale grave-slab / Meg Boulton
  • 15. The architecture of a life: an iconography of architectural images in Oxford University College MS 165 / Heidi Stoner
  • 16. A change of clothes on the Morgan Leaf: the Apocrypha Master's illustration of the transition of Saul / Harry Stirrup
  • 17. In time, out of time: two case studies of recycled evangelist pictures / Carol Farr
  • 18. Crying over the evangelists: compunction in the Insular world / N.G. Baker
  • 19. Something more than 'man': re-examining the human figure in early Anglo-Saxon art / Melissa Herman.

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