Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781783276981
A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.
Author : International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Conference
Publisher : Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : 9780866985123
How did the Anglo-Saxons visualize the world that they inhabited? How did their artwork and iconography help to confirm their identity as a people? What influences shaped their visual imagination? This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the role of visuality in the production of culture. Jewels, weapons, crosses, coins, and other artifacts; descriptive passages in literature; types of script; deluxe illuminated manuscripts; and runes and other written inscriptions, whether real or imagined -- all receive scrutiny in this collection of new essays. Noteworthy for its interdisciplinary scope, the volume features arresting work by experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, linguistics, numismatics, and manuscript studies. The volume as a whole demonstrates the power of current scholarship to cast light on the visual imagination of the past.
Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0859915883
Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars.
Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843831945
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.
Author : Robert Allen Rouse
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843840411
Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that they show a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century Proverbs of Alfred, to the institutional interest in the Guy of Warwick narrative exhibited by the community of St Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard Matthew Pollard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 110717791X
A comprehensive, innovative study of how medieval people envisioned heaven, hell, and purgatory - images and imaginings that endure today.
Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442646675
The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews before 1066.
Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107058597
Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.
Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442666293
Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their depictions of Jews reflected their own politico-theological experiences. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. By studying the “imaginary Jews” of Anglo-Saxon England, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of race, religion, and ethnicity in pre- and post-conquest literature and culture.
Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN :
