Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Bewcastle Cross
Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross Between the Years 1607 and 1861
Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle cross
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses
Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Romance of Bewcastle Cross
Author: James King HewisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Saxon Cross at Bewcastle
Author: Daniel H. HAIGHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bewcastle Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
BEWCASTLE CROSS
Author: Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough) 1. CookPublisher:
ISBN: 9781360755335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
An Introduction to English Runes
Author: Raymond Ian PagePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159461
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts
Author: Kerstin MajewskiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110785471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Author: Catherine E. KarkovPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form—and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression—in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more— consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style.
English Medieval Industries
Author: John BlairPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This work is intended as a modern successor to L.F. Salzman's "English Industries in the Middle Ages" (1913). The approach to each industry is by material, discussing its acquisition, working and sale as a finished product. Only industries that resulted in the production of consumer goods and where substantial numbers of artefacts survive from the Middle Ages are dealt with (fishing and brewing are therefore omitted); the text is illustrated by pictures of surviving objects and contemporary representations of medieval work.