Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin

600 Pages·2007·86.59 MB·English

by  Alastair Minnis

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TEXT, IMAGE, INTERPRETATION
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Prof. Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Prof. Éamonn Ó Carragáin
STUDIES INTHE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
ElizabethM. Tyler (University of York)
JulianD. Richards (University of York)
Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham)
VOLUME18
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TEXT, IMAGE, INTERPRETATION
Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular
Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Edited by
Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Text, image, interpretation : studies in Anglo-Saxon literature and its insular context in
honour of Eamonn O Carragain. - (Studies in the early Middle Ages ; 18)
1. English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism 2. Literature,
Medieval - History and criticism 3. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon 4. Sacred space - History -
To 1500 5. Civilization, Medieval 6. Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500
I. O Carragain, Eamonn II. Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.) III. Roberts, Jane Annette
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ISBN-13: 9782503518190
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ISBN: 978-2-503-51819-0
Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Illustrations xi
List of Colour Plates xvii
Editors’ Preface xix
Foreword xxiii
MARY CLAYTON
I. Looking Outwards
Bede on Seeing the God of Gods in Zion 3
JENNIFER O’REILLY
Martyr Cult within the Walls: Saints and Relics 31
in the Roman Tituli of the Fourth to Seventh Centuries
ALAN THACKER
History in Books’ Clothing: Books as Evidence for Cultural Relations 71
between England and the Continent in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries
M. B. PARKES
The Barberini Gospels: Context and Intertextual Relationships 89
MICHELLE P. BROWN
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Bis per chorum hinc et inde: The ‘Virgin and Child with Angels’ 117
in the Book of Kells
CAROL A. FARR
Text and Image in the Red Book of Darley 135
CATHERINE E. KARKOV
The Mysterious Moment of Resurrection 149
in Early Anglo-Saxon and Irish Iconography
ANNA MARIA LUISELLI FADDA
Why Sight Holds Flowers: An Apocryphal Source 169
for the Iconography of the Alfred Jewel and Fuller Brooch
CHARLES D. WRIGHT
Text and Textile 187
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH
The Third Voyage of Cormac in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae: 209
Analogues and Context
DIARMUID SCULLY
II. Reading Texts
Bede’s Style in his Commentary On I Samuel 233
GEORGE HARDIN BROWN
The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book 253
ELAINE TREHARNE
The Dream of the Rood as Ekphrasis 267
PAUL E. SZARMACH
The Dream of the Rood and Guthlac B as a Literary Context 289
for the Monsters in Beowulf
FREDERICK M. BIGGS
The Solitary Journey: Aloneness and Community in The Seafarer 303
HUGH MAGENNIS
Staþol: A Firm Foundation for Imagery 319
ERIC STANLEY
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Intoxication, Fornication, and Multiplication: 333
The Burgeoning Text of Genesis A
ANDY ORCHARD
Understanding Hrothgar’s Humiliation: 355
Beowulf Lines 144–74 in Context
JANE ROBERTS
Image and Ascendancy in Úlfr’s Húsdrápa 369
RICHARD NORTH
III. Reading Stones
Converting the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Crosses and their Audiences 407
CAROL NEUMAN DE VEGVAR
Gregory the Great and Angelic Mediation: 431
The Anglo-Saxon Crosses of the Derbyshire Peaks
JANE HAWKES
The Winwick Cross and a Suspended Sentence 449
RICHARD N. BAILEY
The Representation of the Apostles in Insular Art, 473
with Special Reference to the New Apostles Frieze at Tarbat, Ross-shire
GEORGE HENDERSON
A Suggested Function for the Holy Well? 495
NIAMH WHITFIELD
Sacred Cities? 515
MICHAEL RYAN
Nineteenth-century Travellers to Early Christian Sites in Co. Kerry 529
ELISABETH OKASHA
Plates 553
Éamonn Ó Carragáin: A Bibliography 569
COMPILED BY TOMÁS Ó CARRAGÁIN
Tabula Gratulatoria 573
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ABBREVIATIONS
AA SS Johannes Bollandus, Acta Sanctorum quotquot toto orbe colun-
tur (Antwerp, 1643–; repr. Brussels, 1965–)
Art B. The Art Bulletin
CASSS Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (Oxford, 1984–)
CCCA Corpus Christianorum, Clavis Apocryphorum (Turnhout,
1992–)
CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turn-
hout, 1966–)
CCSA Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum (Turnhout,
1983–)
CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina (Turnhout, 1953–)
CLA Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin
Manuscripts prior to the Ninth Century, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11
vols and Supplement (Oxford, 1934–79); Addenda, Mediae-
val Studies, 47 (1985), 317–66; Addenda II, Mediaeval
Studies, 54 (1992), 286–87
CSA Corpus della scultura altomedievale (Spoleto, 1959–)
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna,
1866–)
DAJ Derbyshire Archaeological Journal
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x Abbreviations
EETS Early English Text Society (London, 1864–)
OS Original Series
ES Extra Series
SS Supplementary Series
JBAA Journal of the British Archaeological Association
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology
JWCI Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
MANCASS The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, University
of Manchester
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica, cited by series and volume
NESAT The North European Symposium on Archaeological Textiles
NQ Notes and Queries
PG Patrologia cursus completus, Series Graeca, ed. by J. P. Migne,
161 vols (Turnhout, 1857–66)
PL Patrologia cursus completus, Series Latina, ed. by J. P. Migne,
221 vols (Turnhout, 1844–64)
PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
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