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1 online resource : illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Crossing Boundaries; PART I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INSULAR SCULPTURE AND ART; 1. The riddle of the Ruthwell Cross: audience, intention and originator reconsidered; 2. Heads you lose; 3. Depiction of martyrdom in Anglo-Saxon art and literature: contexts and contrasts; 4. Crucifixion iconography on early medieval sculpture in Wales; 5. Pictish relief sculpture: some problems of interpretation; 6. Reviewing the relationship between Pictish and Mercian art fifty years on. PART II: OBJECTS AND MEANINGS; 7. The Santa Sabina crucifixion panel: 'between two living creatures you will be known' on Good Friday, at 'Hierusalem' in fifth-century Rome; 8. The body in the box: the iconography of the Cuthbert Coffin; 9. Reading the Trinity in the Harley Psalter; 10. Wundorsmiþa geweorc: a Mercian sword-pommel from the Beckley area, Oxfordshire; 11. A Scandinavian gold brooch from Norfolk; 12. A glimpse of the heathen Norse in Lincolnshire; 13. Archaeological evidence for local liturgical practices: the lead plaques from Bury St Edmunds. PART III: SETTLEMENTS, SITES AND STRUCTURES; 14. The importance of being Viking; 15. A tale of two cemeteries: Viking burials at Cumwhitton and Carlisle, Cumbria; 16. Transactions on the Dee: the 'exceptional' collection of early sculpture from St John's, Chester; 17. Whitby before the mid-seventh century: some ways forward; 18. Looking at, and for, inscribed stones: a note from the Brough of Birsay, Orkney; 19. An apsidal building in Brixworth churchyard, Northamptonshire; 20. Designing and redesigning Durham Cathedral; PART IV: CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS. 21. The hero's journey in Bede's Ecclesiastical History: the case of King Edwin; 22. Furnishing Heorot; 23. A miracle of St Hilda in a migrating manuscript; 24. A dastardly deed? Bishop Ranulph Flambard and the Ravensworth Estate; 25. Varieties of language-contact in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; 26. Flodibor rex Francorum; 27. Lexical heritage in Northumberland: a toponymic field-walk; Richard N. Bailey's Publications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
Arts, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Arts, Medieval
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Civilization, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cambridge, Eric, editor.
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Hawkes, Jane (Medievalist), editor.
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Bailey, Richard N., honouree.
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| ISBN |
9781785703089 |
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1785703080 |
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9781785703096 |
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1785703099 |
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9781785703102 |
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1785703102 |
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