[Studies in the Early Middle Ages] Text, Image, Interpretation: Volume 18 (Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin) ||

In emulation of Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline. The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to medieval Rome, more generally to western Europe, and backwards to the world-geography of the ancient world; its illustrations include colour plates to illumine the hangings, clothing and vestments extant from Anglo-Saxon England. A range of texts is considered in the central section, Latin, English, and Old Norse. The third section focuses on sculpture, buildings and the insular landscape, juxtaposing the sculptured stonework of Northern Britain with early Christian monuments and remains from Ireland; among the illustrations are striking coloured photographs of Irish ecclesiastical sites. The contributors are from Canada, the United States, Italy, Britain, and Ireland. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Abbreviations”, “List of Illustrations”, “List of Colour Plates”, “Editors’ Preface”, “Foreword”), p. i Free Access Bede on Seeing the God of Gods in Zion, p. 3 Jennifer O’Reilly https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3789 Martyr Cult within the Walls: Saints and Relics in the Roman Tituli of the Fourth to Seventh Centuries, p. 31 Alan Thacker https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3790 History in Books’ Clothing: Books as Evidence for Cultural Relations between England and the Continent in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries, p. 71 M. B. Parkes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3791 The Barberini Gospels: Context and Intertextual Relationships, p. 89 Michelle P. Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3792 Bis per chorum hinc et inde: The ‘Virgin and Child with Angels’ in the Book of Kells, p. 117 Carol A. Farr https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3793 Text and Image in the Red Book of Darley, p. 135 Catherine E. Karkov https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3794 The Mysterious Moment of Resurrection in Early Anglo-Saxon and Irish Iconography, p. 149 Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3795 Why Sight Holds Flowers: An Apocryphal Source for the Iconography of the Alfred Jewel and Fuller Brooch, p. 169 Charles D. Wright https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3796 Text and Textile, p. 187 Elizabeth Coatsworth https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3797 The Third Voyage of Cormac in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae: Analogues and Context, p. 209 Diarmuid Scully https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3798 Bede’s Style in his Commentary On I Samuel, p. 233 George Hardin Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3799 The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book, p. 253 Elaine Treharne https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3800 The Dream of the Rood as Ekphrasis, p. 267 Paul E. Szarmach https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3801 The Dream of the Rood and Guthlac B as a Literary Context for the Monsters in Beowulf, p. 289 Frederick M. Biggs https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3802 The Solitary Journey: Aloneness and Community in The Seafarer, p. 303 Hugh Magennis https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3803 Staþol: A Firm Foundation for Imagery, p. 319 Eric Stanley https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3804 Intoxication, Fornication, and Multiplication: The Burgeoning Text of Genesis A, p. 333 Andy Orchard https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3805 Understanding Hrothgar’s Humiliation: Beowulf Lines 144–74 in Context, p. 355 Jane Roberts https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3806 Image and Ascendancy in Úlfr’s Húsdrápa, p. 369 Richard North https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3807 Converting the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Crosses and their Audiences, p. 407 Carol Neuman de Vegvar https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3808 Gregory the Great and Angelic Mediation: The Anglo-Saxon Crosses of the Derbyshire Peaks, p. 431 Jane Hawkes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3809 The Winwick Cross and a Suspended Sentence, p. 449 Richard N. Bailey https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3810 The Representation of the Apostles in Insular Art, with Special Reference to the New Apostles Frieze at Tarbat, Ross-shire, p. 473 George Henderson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3811 A Suggested Function for the Holy Well?, p. 495 Niamh Whitfield https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3812 Sacred Cities?, p. 515 Michael Ryan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3813 Nineteenth-century Travellers to Early Christian Sites in Co. Kerry, p. 529 Elisabeth Okasha https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3814 Plates, p. 553 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3815 Back matter (“Éamonn Ó Carragáin: A Bibliography”, “Tabula Gratulatoria”), p. 569 In emulation of Professor Eamonn o Carragain, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline. The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to medieval Rome, more generally to western Europe, and backwards to the world-geography of the ancient world; its illustrations include colour plates to illumine the hangings, clothing and vestments extant from Anglo-Saxon England. A range of texts is considered in the central section, Latin, English, and Old Norse. The third section focuses on sculpture, buildings and the insular landscape, juxtaposing the sculptured stonework of Northern Britain with early Christian monuments and remains from Ireland; among the illustrations are striking coloured photographs of Irish ecclesiastical sites. The contributors are from Canada, the United States, Italy, Britain, and Ireland. This interdisciplinary volume draws together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons.