Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter
Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov and is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines—history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion—providing vital insights into how symbols function within society. The flexibility, portability, and adaptability of the Anglo-Saxon understanding of the cross suggest that, in pre-Conquest England, at least, the linking of word, image, and performance joined the physical and spiritual, the temporal and eternal, and the earthly and heavenly in the Anglo-Saxon imaginative landscape.

This volume is divided into three sections. The first section of the collection focuses on representations of “The Cross: Image and Emblem,” with contributions by Michelle P. Brown, David A. E. Pelteret, and Catherine E. Karkov. The second section, “The Cross: Meaning and Word,” deals in semantics and semeology with essays by Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Helen Damico, Rolf Bremmer, and Ursula Lenker. The third section of the book, “The Cross: Gesture and Structure,” employs methodologies drawn from archaeology, new media, and theories of rulership to develop new insights into subjects as varied as cereal production, the little-known Nunburnholme Cross, and early medieval concepts of political power.

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is a major collection of new research, completing the publication series of the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod project. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown, Volume 2 in this series, remains available from West Virginia University Press.

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Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter
Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov and is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines—history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion—providing vital insights into how symbols function within society. The flexibility, portability, and adaptability of the Anglo-Saxon understanding of the cross suggest that, in pre-Conquest England, at least, the linking of word, image, and performance joined the physical and spiritual, the temporal and eternal, and the earthly and heavenly in the Anglo-Saxon imaginative landscape.

This volume is divided into three sections. The first section of the collection focuses on representations of “The Cross: Image and Emblem,” with contributions by Michelle P. Brown, David A. E. Pelteret, and Catherine E. Karkov. The second section, “The Cross: Meaning and Word,” deals in semantics and semeology with essays by Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Helen Damico, Rolf Bremmer, and Ursula Lenker. The third section of the book, “The Cross: Gesture and Structure,” employs methodologies drawn from archaeology, new media, and theories of rulership to develop new insights into subjects as varied as cereal production, the little-known Nunburnholme Cross, and early medieval concepts of political power.

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is a major collection of new research, completing the publication series of the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod project. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown, Volume 2 in this series, remains available from West Virginia University Press.

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Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter

Overview

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov and is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines—history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion—providing vital insights into how symbols function within society. The flexibility, portability, and adaptability of the Anglo-Saxon understanding of the cross suggest that, in pre-Conquest England, at least, the linking of word, image, and performance joined the physical and spiritual, the temporal and eternal, and the earthly and heavenly in the Anglo-Saxon imaginative landscape.

This volume is divided into three sections. The first section of the collection focuses on representations of “The Cross: Image and Emblem,” with contributions by Michelle P. Brown, David A. E. Pelteret, and Catherine E. Karkov. The second section, “The Cross: Meaning and Word,” deals in semantics and semeology with essays by Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Helen Damico, Rolf Bremmer, and Ursula Lenker. The third section of the book, “The Cross: Gesture and Structure,” employs methodologies drawn from archaeology, new media, and theories of rulership to develop new insights into subjects as varied as cereal production, the little-known Nunburnholme Cross, and early medieval concepts of political power.

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is a major collection of new research, completing the publication series of the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod project. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown, Volume 2 in this series, remains available from West Virginia University Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781933202501
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication date: 05/01/2010
Series: WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES , #11
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii

In Memoriam Timothy Reuter xi

Introduction Sarah Larratt Keefer Karen Louise Jolly Catherine E. Karkov 1

I The Cross: Image and Emblem

The Cross and the Book: the Cross-Carpet Pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels as Sacred Figurae Michelle P. Brown 17

A Cross and an Acrostic: Boniface's Prefatory Poem to his Ars grammatica David A. E. Pelteret 53

Abbot Ælfwine and the Sign of the Cross Catherine E. Karkov 103

II The Cross: Meaning and Word

Sources or Analogues? Using Liturgical Evidence to Date The Dream of the Rood Éamonn Ó Carragáin 135

Writing/Sounding the Cross: The Dream of the Rood as Figured Poetry Helen Damico 166

Old English "Cross" Words Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. 204

Signifying Christ in Anglo-Saxon England: Old English Terms for the Sign of the Cross Ursula Lenker 233

III The Cross: Gesture and Structure

The Staff of Life: Cross and Blessings in Anglo-Saxon Cereal Production Debby Banham 279

Anglo-Saxon Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire David A. Hinton 319

New Media and the Nunburnholme Cross Martin K. Foys 340

The Enkolpion of Edward the Confessor: Byzantium and Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Rulership Lynn Jones 369

Index 387

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