Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture

Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text

Charles Insley, Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2017
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-497-0 (ISBN)

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This volume presents five major cross-disciplinary discourses on the transformation of Anglo-Saxon culture seen through developments in literary text, imagery, historical documents, art and archaeological material culture.

The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history and art; ecclesiastical-historical circumstances explain the adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended into the making of new books with multiple functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes in burial ritual. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances. The papers originated as five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS).

Charles Insley is Senior Lecturer in medieval History at the University of Manchester. He is currently Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. He has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Welsh charters and his edition of the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Exeter Cathedral is forthcoming, as is a biography of the first king of the English, Æthelstan (924-939). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, UK. She has published extensively on early medieval culture, especially dress and textiles.

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Introduction

GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER

1. A New Chronology and New Agenda: the problematic sixth century

JOHN HINES

2. Anglo-Saxon Art: tradition and transformation

LESLIE WEBSTER

3. King Alfred and Weland: traditional heroes at King Alfred’s court

BARBARA YORKE

4. Strategies of Visual Literacy in Insular and Anglo-Saxon Book Culture

MICHELLE P. BROWN

5. The Vercelli Book as a Context for The Dream of the Rood

ÉAMONN Ó CARRAGÁIN

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	colour and b/w
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78570-497-4 / 1785704974
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-497-0 / 9781785704970
Zustand	Neuware