Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England. Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments of Anglo-Saxon England. This volume builds on her scholarly interests, offering new engagements with medieval culture and the current scholarly methodologies that shape the discipline. The contributors approach several significant objects and texts from the early and later Middle Ages, working across several disciplinary backgrounds and periods, largely focusing on the Insular World as it intersects with wider global contexts of the period. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from the material culture of baptism, to the material, symbolic and iconographic consideration of the artistic outputs of the Insular world, with essays on sculpture, metalwork, glass and manuscripts, to ideas of stone and salvation in both material and textual contexts, to intellectual puzzles and patterns - both material and mathematic - to consideration of the ways in which the conversion to Christianity played out on the landscape.
Author(s): Meg Boulton, Michael D. J. Bintley (eds.)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 15
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgements xv
List of Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
1. Recutting the Cross: The Anglo-Saxon Baptismal Font at Wilne / Carolyn Twomey 7
2. The Fountain Sealed Up in the Garden Enclosed: A Vine Scroll at Kells / Colleen M. Thomas 23
3. The Art of the Church in Ninth-Century Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of the Newent Cross / Elizabeth A. Alexander 49
4. ‘The Stones of the Wall Will Cry Out’: Lithic Emissaries and Marble Messengers in 'Andreas' / Michael D. J. Bintley 61
5. Conversion, Ritual, and Landscape: Streoneshalh (Whitby), Osingadun, and the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Street House, North Yorkshire / Tom Pickles 81
6. Outside the Box: Relics and Reliquaries at the Shrine of St. Cuthbert in the Later Middle Ages / Philippa Turner 101
7. An Unusual Hell Mouth in an Old Testament Illustration: Understanding the Numbers Initial in the Twelfth-Century Laud Bible / Harry Stirrup 123
8. The Problem of Man: Carved from the Same Stone / Heidi Stoner 143
9. Glass Beads: Production and Decorative Motifs / Mags Mannion 167
10. Unmasking Meaning: Faces Hidden and Revealed in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Melissa Herman 187
11. Alcuin, Mathematics and the Rational Mind / Michael N. Brennan 203
12. Looking Down from the Rothbury Cross: (Re)Viewing the Place of Anglo-Saxon Art / Meg Boulton 217
Bibliography of Jane Hawkes’ Writings 235
Index 241
Tabula Gratulatoria 254
