Item Number: 142851 Title: Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World Author: Cambridge, Eric ; Jane Hawkes (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781785703072 Description: London: Oxbow Books, 2017. 29cm., hardcover, 299pp. illus. Contents: 1. The riddle of the Ruthwell Cross - audience, intention and originator reconsidered, Clare Stancliffe. 2. Heads you lose, Rosemary Cramp. 3. Depiction of martyrdom in Anglo-Saxon art and literature - contexts and contrasts, Elizabeth Coatsworth. 4. Crucifixion iconography on early medieval sculpture in Wales, Nancy Edwards. 5. Pictish relief sculpture - some problems of interpretation, George Henderson. 6. Reviewing the relationship between Pictish and Mercian art fifty years on, Isabel Henderson. 7. The Santa Sabina crucifixion panel - 'between two living creatures you will be known' on Good Friday, at 'Hierusalem' in fifth-century Rome, Éamonn Ó Carragáin. 8. The body in the box - the iconography of the Cuthbert Coffin, Jane Hawkes. 9. Reading the Trinity in the Harley Psalter, Catherine Karkov. 10. Wundorsmiþa geweorc - a Mercian sword-pommel from the Beckley area, Oxfordshire, Leslie Webster. 11. A Scandinavian gold brooch from Norfolk, James Graham-Campbell. 12. A glimpse of the heathen Norse in Lincolnshire, John Hines. 13. Archaeological evidence for local liturgical practices - the lead plaques from Bury St Edmunds, Helen Gittos. 14. The importance of being Viking, Deirdre O'Sullivan. 15. A tale of two cemeteries - Viking burials at Cumwhitton and Carlisle, Cumbria, Caroline Paterson. 16. Transactions on the Dee - the 'exceptional' collection of early sculpture from St John's, Chester, Paul Everson and David Stocker. 17. Whitby before the mid-seventh century - some ways forward?, Lorna Watts. 18. Looking at, and for, inscribed stones - a note from the Brough of Birsay, Orkney, Christopher D. Morris. 19. An apsidal building in Brixworth churchyard, Northamptonshire, David Parsons. 20. Designing and redesigning Durham Cathedral, Eric Cambridge. 21. The hero's journey in Bede's Ecclesiastical History - the case of King Edwin, Colm O'Brien. 22. Furnishing Heorot, Gale Owen-Crocker. 23. A miracle of St Hilda in a migrating manuscript, A.I. Doyle. 24. A dastardly deed by Ranulph Flambard, Bishop of Durham?, Lindsay Allason-Jones and David Heslop. 25. Varieties of language-contact in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, John Frankis. 26. Flodibor rex Francorum, Herman Moisl. 27. Lexical heritage in Northumberland - a toponymic field-walk, Diana Whaley.
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