Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World
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Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World

Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World

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Eric Cambridge (Contributor) Jane Hawkes (Contributor)  

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Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, and from St Cuthbert's coffin to the design of its final resting place, the Romanesque cathedral at Durham. Important thematic surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers interacting with the political and intellectual concerns of the wider Insular and continental world. Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, revealing how radically present perceptions shape our understanding of the past, how recent archaeological work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional categorisation of the Vikings as 'incomers', and how recontextualising Viking material culture can lead to unexpected insights into famous historical episodes such as King Edgar's boat trip on the Dee. Recent landmark finds, notably the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also published here for the first time in comprehensive analyses which will remain the fundamental discussions of these spectacular objects for many years to come.This book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in medieval culture. b/w and colour
Eric Cambridge is an independent scholar specialising in medieval material culture, particularly architectural and art history. Jane Hawkes is Professor in the History of Art at the University of York. She has published widely on all aspects of late antique and early medieval art and architecture, but specialises in the early medieval sculpture of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on that of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Contributor: Eric Cambridge
  • Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • ISBN13: 9781785703072
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 215x279mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Release Date: 2017-04-30
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Eric Cambridge is an independent scholar specialising in medieval material culture, particularly architectural and art history. Jane Hawkes is Professor in the History of Art at the University of York. She has published widely on all aspects of late antique and early medieval art and architecture, but specialises in the early medieval sculpture of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on that of Anglo-Saxon England

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