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Book SynopsisA monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book. In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.
Table of ContentsForeword Rosemary J. Cramp Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth List of Illustrations List of Tables Contributors Introduction Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool 1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles Donncha MacGabhann 2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts Christina Lee 3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F Gale R. Owen-Crocker 4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England Maren Clegg Hyer 5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey Penelope Walton Rogers 6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries Frances Pritchard 7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography Alexandra Lester-Makin part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript 8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture Jane Hawkes 9 The Thread of Ornament Catherine E. Karkov 10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire David A. Hinton 11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition Éamonn Ó Carragáin 12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction? Richard N. Bailey 13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes) Select Bibliography Index
