Transformation in Anglo-Saxon culture : Toller lectures on art, archaeology and text /

"The five authoritative papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Other Authors: Insley, Charles (Editor), Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Subjects:
To 1500
Anglo-Saxons > Social life and customs.
Anglo-Saxons > Antiquities.
Art, Anglo-Saxon.
Anglo-Saxons > History > Sources.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Social change > England > History > To 1500.
Anglo-Saxons > Mœurs et coutumes.
Art anglo-saxon.
Anglo-Saxons > Histoire > Sources.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Anglo-Saxons.
Civilization.
English literature > Old English.
Social change.
England > Civilization > To 1066.
Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Angleterre > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 1066.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 449-1066 (Période anglo-saxonne)
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gale R. Owen-Crocker
  • A new chronology and new agenda : the problematic sixth century / John Hines
  • Anglo-Saxon art : tradition and transformation / Leslie Webster
  • King Alfred and Weland : tradition and transformation at the court of King Alfred / Barbara Yorke
  • Strategies of visual literacy in insular and Anglo-Saxon book culture / Michelle P. Brown
  • The Vercelli book as a context for the Dream of the Rood / Éamonn Carragáin.

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