Text, image, interpretation : studies in Anglo-Saxon literature and its insular context in honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin / edited by Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ó Carragáin, Éamonn.

Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)

Roberts, Jane, 1936-

Series:

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 18.

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.

Sacred space--History--To 1500.

Sacred space.

Civilization, Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.

History.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 574 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2007]

Summary:

In emulation of Professor Eamonn O Carragain, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline.

The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to medieval Rome, more generally to western Europe, and backwards to the world-geography of the ancient world; its illustrations include colour plates to illumine the hangings, clothing and vestments extant from Anglo-Saxon England. A range of texts is considered in the central section, Latin, English, and Old Norse. The third section focuses on sculpture, buildings and the insular landscape, juxtaposing the sculptured stonework of Northern Britain with early Christian monuments and remains from Ireland; among the illustrations are striking coloured photographs of Irish ecclesiastical sites. The contributors are from Canada, the United States, Italy, Britain, and Ireland.

Contents:

I Looking Outwards

Bede on Seeing the God of Gods in Zion / Jennifer O'Reilly 3

Martyr Cult within the Walls: Saints and Relics in the Roman Tituli of the Fourth to Seventh Centuries / Alan Thacker 31

History in Books' Clothing: Books as Evidence for Cultural Relations between England and the Continent in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries / M. B. Parkes 71

The Barberini Gospels: Context and Intertextual Relationships / Michelle P. Brown 89

Bis per chorum hinc et inde: The 'Virgin and Child with Angels' in the Book of Kells / Carol A. Farr 117

Text and Image in the Red Book of Darley / Catherine E. Karkov 135

The Mysterious Moment of Resurrection in Early Anglo-Saxon and Irish Iconography / Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda 149

Why Sight Holds Flowers: An Apocryphal Source for the Iconography of the Alfred Jewel and Fuller Brooch / Charles D. Wright 169

Text and Textile / Elizabeth Coatsworth 187

The Third Voyage of Cormac in Adomnan's Vita Columbae: Analogues and Context / Diarmuid Scully 209

II Reading Texts

Bede's Style in his Commentary On I Samuel / George Hardin Brown 233

The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book / Elaine Treharne 253

The Dream of the Rood as Ekphrasis / Paul E. Szarmach 267

The Dream of the Rood and Guthlac B as a Literary Context for the Monsters in Beowulf / Frederick M. Biggs 289

The Solitary Journey: Aloneness and Community in The Seafarer / Hugh Magennis 303

Stapol: A Firm Foundation for Imagery / Eric Stanley 319

Intoxication, Fornication, and Multiplication: The Burgeoning Text of Genesis A / Andy Orchard 333

Understanding Hrothgar's Humiliation: Beowulf Lines 144-74 in Context / Jane Roberts 355

Image and Ascendancy in Ulfr's Husdrapa / Richard North 369

III Reading Stones

Converting the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Crosses and their Audiences / Carol Neuman de Vegvar 407

Gregory the Great and Angelic Mediation: The Anglo-Saxon Crosses of the Derbyshire Peaks / Jane Hawkes 431

The Winwick Cross and a Suspended Sentence / Richard N. Bailey 449

The Representation of the Apostles in Insular Art, with Special Reference to the New Apostles Frieze at Tarbat, Ross-shire / George Henderson 473

A Suggested Function for the Holy Well? / Niamh Whitfield 495

Sacred Cities? / Michael Ryan 515

Nineteenth-century Travellers to Early Christian Sites in Co. Kerry / Elisabeth Okasha 529

Plates 553

Eamonn O Carragain: A Bibliography / Tomas O Carragain 569

Tabula Gratulatoria 573.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

2503518192

9782503518190

OCLC:

153561958