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:
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
