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Art and Worship in the Insular World
Papers in Honour of Elizabeth Coatsworth
A monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book.
In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp.
Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.
In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp.
Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, BA PhD (Newcastle-on-Tyne) FSA, Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Her books include
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England and The Bayeux Tapestry.
Maren Clegg Hyer BA MA PhD (University of Toronto), Professor at Valdosta State University. Books include The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World and its subsequent volumes on built environment, water environments, and sense and feeling in the material world of the early English peoples.
Maren Clegg Hyer BA MA PhD (University of Toronto), Professor at Valdosta State University. Books include The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World and its subsequent volumes on built environment, water environments, and sense and feeling in the material world of the early English peoples.
Foreword
Rosemary J. Cramp
Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer
1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles
Donncha MacGabhann
2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts
Christina Lee
3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England
Maren Clegg Hyer
5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey
Penelope Walton Rogers
6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries
Frances Pritchard
7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography
Alexandra Lester-Makin
8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture
Jane Hawkes
9 The Thread of Ornament
Catherine E. Karkov
10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire
David A. Hinton
11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition
Éamonn Ó Carragáin
12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction?
Richard N. Bailey
13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised
Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss
Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes)
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Index
Rosemary J. Cramp
Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer
part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool
1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles
Donncha MacGabhann
2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts
Christina Lee
3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England
Maren Clegg Hyer
5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey
Penelope Walton Rogers
6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries
Frances Pritchard
7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography
Alexandra Lester-Makin
part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript
8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture
Jane Hawkes
9 The Thread of Ornament
Catherine E. Karkov
10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire
David A. Hinton
11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition
Éamonn Ó Carragáin
12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction?
Richard N. Bailey
13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised
Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss
Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes)
Select Bibliography
Index
Undergraduate and graduate students of art history, medieval studies, social history, specialists in art history and medieval history.