The Ruthwell Cross and Its Story
Author : John Linton Dinwiddie
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN :
Author : John Linton Dinwiddie
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Christian antiquities
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Author : Kerstin Majewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 3110785471
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.
Author : Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802090089
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.
Author : E.J. Christie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501512900
This interdisciplinary volume collects original essays in literary criticism and literary theory, philology, codicology, metrics, and art history. Composed by prominent scholars in Anglo-Saxon studies, these essays honor the depth and breadth of Patrick W. Conner’s influence in our discipline. As a scholar, teacher, editor, administrator and innovator, Pat has contributed to Anglo-Saxon studies for four decades. It is hard to say which of his legacies is most profound.
Author : Fred Orton
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
A study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. This book shows the reader how to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes with a discussion of their underlying premises.
Author : Brendan Cassidy
Publisher : Princeton Univ Department of Art &
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691000381
The Ruthwell Cross, a late seventh-or eighth-century high cross in the kirk at Ruthwell in the Scottish Borders, is one of the most intriguing examples of sculpture to survive from the early Middle Ages. With its Latin inscriptions, a Runic poem related to the "Dream of the Rood," and an extensive program of finely carved images, the cross has long attracted the interest of scholars from a variety of disciplines. Bringing together papers delivered at a conference sponsored by the Index of Christian Art in Princeton in 1990, this illustrated volume addresses some of the most debated issues surrounding this major literary and artistic monument of Anglo-Saxon culture. The volume begins with an introduction to the historiography of the cross by Brendan Cassidy. Robert T. Farrell discusses the fate of the cross from the seventeenth century, its current state of preservation, and its reconstruction; David Howlett uncovers patterns of significance in the Latin and Runic inscriptions; Douglas MacLean suggests the most likely date for the cross on the basis of contemporary historical events; Paul Meyvaert addresses the message of the iconographic program in the light of the theology and religious beliefs of the time. The volume also contains an extensive bibliography and the complete series of sixteenth-to nineteenth-century drawings and engravings of the entire cross and of its parts.
Author : Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2008-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556356374
"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 1716 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bibliography
ISBN :
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Dumfriesshire (Scotland)
ISBN :