Overview

The aim of this volume is to explore Anglo-Saxon perceptions of form and order in their different manifestations, through two main strands texts of all kinds, and art, architecture and archaeology. Contributors come from many different specialisms, enabling wide-ranging discussion, as well contributions from other Insular cultures and a continental European perspective.

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Author:   Sally Crawford ,  Helena Hamerow ,  Leslie Webster
Publisher:   Oxford University School of Archaeology
Imprint:   Oxford University School of Archaeology
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 20.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 29.50cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781905905133

ISBN 10:   1905905130
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   11 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface (Leslie Webster) Medium and message in early Anglo-Saxon animal art: some observations on the contexts of Salin’s Style I in England (Tania M. Dickinson) ‘…and pretty coins all in a row’ (Anna Gannon) Anglo-Saxon art: some forms, orderings and their meanings (Richard Bailey) The church triumphant: the figural columns of early ninth-century Anglo-Saxon England (Jane Hawkes) From metalwork to manuscript: some observations on the use of Celtic art in Insular manuscripts (Susan Youngs) Framing the Book of Durrow inside/outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Nancy Netzer) The sign at the cross-roads: the Matthean sacrum in Anglo-Saxon gospel books before Alfred the Great (Carol Farr) The last Chi-rho in the West? From Insular to Anglo-Saxon in the Boulogne 10 Gospels (Richard Gameson) On the distribution of verse types in Old English Poetry (Geoffrey Russom)

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Dr Sally Crawford and Dr Katharina Ulmschneider are Senior Research Fellows at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford. They are the leading experts on the life and works of the eminent Celtic Art scholar Professor Paul Jacobsthal. Leslie Webster is Keeper Emerita of the British Museum’s Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, and former Senior Curator of the Early Medieval Collections; she is also currently Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. She lectures and publishes widely on Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology, and has curated major exhibitions on Anglo-Saxon and Insular themes. Her most recent book is Anglo-Saxon Art: a New History (British Museum 2016).

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