Author: Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802090089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, ?amonn ? Carrag?in has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history.
Ritual and the Rood
Author: Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802090089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, ?amonn ? Carrag?in has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802090089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, ?amonn ? Carrag?in has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history.
The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts
Author: Kerstin Majewski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110785447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110785447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
The Insular Tradition
Author: Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791434567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"A breadth of interdisciplinary voices" discuss how geographical insularity - specifically that of Britain and Ireland - has affected artistic tradition.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791434567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"A breadth of interdisciplinary voices" discuss how geographical insularity - specifically that of Britain and Ireland - has affected artistic tradition.
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Author: Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form—and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression—in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more— consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form—and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression—in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more— consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style.
Runes and Runic Inscriptions
Author: Raymond Ian Page
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The essays that comprise this study range from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The essays that comprise this study range from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.
The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.
The Treasury of Art, Illustrated
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Archaeological Journal
Author:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Cumberland and Westmorland
Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300095906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The well-loved Lake District makes up only part of a wild and spacious county, a poetic setting for exceptionally rich Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon monuments. Carlisle Cathedral and Lanercost Priory represent Northern Gothic, while castles such as Naworth and Appleby developed into fine houses which, in their style and decoration, show a rugged regional independence. Settlements range from the planned Stuart port of Whitehaven to the remote market towns of Kirkby Stephen and Alston in the east, while the architecture of the main villages and farmhouses is famous for its unaffected simplicity.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300095906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The well-loved Lake District makes up only part of a wild and spacious county, a poetic setting for exceptionally rich Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon monuments. Carlisle Cathedral and Lanercost Priory represent Northern Gothic, while castles such as Naworth and Appleby developed into fine houses which, in their style and decoration, show a rugged regional independence. Settlements range from the planned Stuart port of Whitehaven to the remote market towns of Kirkby Stephen and Alston in the east, while the architecture of the main villages and farmhouses is famous for its unaffected simplicity.
Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions
Author: Great Britain. Commissions. Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description