The contributions in the book reach from Spain to Ireland and cover a wide field of medieval art. Each article explores a specific piece of artistic expression of the cultural crossroads criss-crossing medieval history

The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval World
By Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, and Melissa Herman (editors)
Four Courts Press Ltd 2015
ISBN-10: 184682561X
ISBN-13: 978-1846825613

ABSTRACT:

The medieval was long viewed as an unenlightened counterpoint to the ‘Classical’ and the ‘Renaissance’, being perceived as static compared to their pivotal dynamism. Here, the wider debate about cultural crossroads in the medieval period is readdressed, to ask what the medieval was, is and might be.

The contributions in the book reach from Spain to Ireland and cover a wide field of medieval art.

Meg Boulton is a freelance art historian awarded her doctorate by University of York. Jane Hawkes is reader in the Department of History of Art, University of York. Melissa Herman is currently pursuing her PhD at University of York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• The changing Middle Ages
  by Colum Hourihane
• Medieval material culture and social change
  by Aleksandra McClain
• Domestic and social practice in later medieval Córdoba, Spain
  by D.A. Lenton
• Becoming Christian, being Christian in early medieval Europe
  by Neil Christie
• Coming and going at Ruthwell: adventus and transition
  by Jane Hawkes
• St Everilda: evidence for a saint’s cult in transition
  by Philippa Turner
• A 14th-century pilgrimage account from Ireland
  v Małgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton
• Transition and the Orkney Islands from antiquity to Bede
  Diarmuid Scully
• A case-study in recovering Old English folk-taxonomies
  v Eric Lacey
• The wīcs in Old English poetry
  by Michael D.J. Bintley
• The aesthetics of transition on the Franks casket
  by Victoria Symons
• The Joseph cycle in the sculpture series of Salisbury Cathedral Chapter House
  by Zoë Dumelow
• Anglo-Saxon skeuomorphs and the Kirkdale grave-slab
  by Meg Boulton
• An iconography of architectural images in Oxford University College MS 165
  by Heidi Stoner
• The Morgan Leaf
  by Harry Stirrup
• Two recycled Evangelist pictures
  by Carol Farr
• Compunction in the insular world
  by N.G. Baker
• The human figure in early Anglo-Saxon art
  by Melissa Herman