Description
Book SynopsisBringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse. Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.
Table of ContentsContents List of Plates List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World 1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture Matthias Friedrich 2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England Rachael Vause 3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’ Jane Hawkes 4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland Megan Henvey 5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis Ross McIntire Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World 6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross Amanda Doviak 7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins Cher Casey 8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century Nino Simonishvili 9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne John Mitchell 10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral Elisa A. Foster 11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom Lesley Milner Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms 12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts Aideen M. Ireland 13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland Edel Bhreathnach 14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation Alison Elizabeth Killilea 15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism Tarren Andrews 16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906 Katherine Cross Index
