Overview

Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse. Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.

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Author:   Megan Henvey ,  Amanda Doviak ,  Jane Hawkes
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9789004499324

ISBN 10:   9004499326
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   17 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Plates List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction  Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World 1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture  Matthias Friedrich 2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England  Rachael Vause 3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’  Jane Hawkes 4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland  Megan Henvey 5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis  Ross McIntire Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World 6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross  Amanda Doviak 7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins  Cher Casey 8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century  Nino Simonishvili 9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne  John Mitchell 10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral  Elisa A. Foster 11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom  Lesley Milner Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms 12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts  Aideen M. Ireland 13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland  Edel Bhreathnach 14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation  Alison Elizabeth Killilea 15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism  Tarren Andrews 16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906  Katherine Cross Index

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Megan Henvey, Department of History of Art, University of York completed her Ph.D. in 2021 on the historical, historiographical, iconographic, and theological and liturgical contexts of the ‘Northern/Ulster’ Group of Irish High crosses. Amanda Doviak, Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2021-22, University of York, completed her Ph.D. on the figural iconographies of Viking-age stone crosses in northern England in 2021. Her research interests include artistic exchanges and their intersections with early medieval liturgical developments. Professor Jane Hawkes, Art History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, works on the cross-cultural contexts of the early medieval art of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the sculptural arts and their historiography.

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