Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture
Edited by Paul E. Szarmach With Virginia Oggins
Hardback (Published)
(January 1986)
ISBN: 9780918720672
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The papers in this volume are the written record of the Symposium on the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture held in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (1983). The Symposium highlighted the interconnections of literature, art history, and archaeology, and the resulting book likewise promotes disciplinary and interdisciplinary interchange within Anglo-Saxon Studies.
The papers in this volume are the written record of the Symposium on the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture held in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (1983). The Symposium highlighted the interconnections of literature, art history, and archaeology, and the resulting book likewise promotes disciplinary and interdisciplinary interchange within Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Forward, by Paul E. Szarmach
Part One: Literature
Literary History and Old English Poetry: The Case of Christ I, II, III, by Thomas D. Hill
Source Study as a Trick with Mirrors: Annihilation of Meaning in the Old English "Mary of Egypt", by Colin Chase
Evidence for Knowledge of Latin Literature in Old English, by Janet M. Bately
The Preservation and Transmission of Greek in Early England, by Mary Catherine Bodden
The Venerable Bede and Hiberno-Latin Exegesis, by Joseph F. T. Kelly
Towards the Identification of Old English Literary Ideas -- Old Workings and New Seams, by J. E. Cross
Continental Sources of Anglo-Saxon Devotional Writing, by Thomas H. Bestul
Biblical Style in Early Insular Latin, by David R. Howlett
Part Two: History, Archaeology, Art History
Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship: Some Further Thoughts, by Patrick Wormald
Northumbria and Ireland, by Rosemary Cramp
The Relationship Between Scandinavian and English Art from the Late Eighth to the Mid-Twelfth Century, by Signe Horn Fuglesang
The Distinctiveness of Viking Colonial Art, by James Lang
The Imagery of the Living Ecclesia and the English Monastic Reform, by Robert Deshman
Demonic Elements in Anglo-Saxon Iconography, by Louis Jordan
The Marvels-of-the-East Tradition in Anglo-Saxon Art, by John Block Friedman
Part Three: Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Devotional Context of the Cross before A.D. 1000, by Sandra McEntire
Reflections on the Iconography of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses, by Robert T. Farrell
Christ over the Beasts and the Agnus Dei: Two Multivalent Panels on the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses, by Eamonn O Carragain
Part Four: Research Tools
The Dictionary of Old English, by Ashley Crandell Amos
The Index to Iconographic Subjects in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Research Tool, by Thomas H. Ohlgren
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, by Rosemary Cramp
A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, by Helmut Gneuss
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, by David R. Howlett
- Edited by Paul E. Szarmach
- With Virginia Oggins
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The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture
Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Authority of Images / Images of Authority
Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World
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