The art, literature and material culture of the medieval world


Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes & Melissa Herman, editors

Hardback €58.50
Catalogue Price: €65.00
ISBN: 978-1-84682-561-3
June 2015. 372pp; colour illustrations, large format.

Interrogating the bastard children of change: an introduction to the critical terminology of transition, transformation and taxonomy
Meg Boulton and Melissa Herman with Jane Hawkes

Observations on the changing Middle Ages
Colum Hourihane

The archaeology of transition: rethinking medieval material culture and social change
Aleksandra McClain

Ethnic identities in transition: domestic and social practice in later medieval Córdoba, Spaine
D.A. Lenton

Becoming Christian, being Christian in early medieval Europe
Neil Christie

‘Hail the conquering hero’: coming and going at Ruthwell: adventus and transition
Jane Hawkes

St Everilda: evidence for a saint’s cult in transition
Philippa Turner

Relics and riches: familiarizing the unknown in a fourteenth-century pilgrimage account from Ireland
Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton

Ends of empire and the earth: themes of transition and the Orkney Islands from antiquity to Bede
Diarmuid Scully

When is a hroc not a hroc? When it is a crawe or a hrefn!
A case-study in recovering Old English folk-taxonomies
Eric Lacey

Settlements in transition: where are the wīcs in Old English poetry?
Michael D.J. Bintley

The aesthetics of transition on the Franks Casket
Victoria Symons

Transitions of authority: the Joseph cycle in the sculpture series of Salisbury Cathedral Chapter House
Zoë Dumelow

Embroidered stones: considering the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon skeuomorphs and the Kirkdale grave-slab
Meg Boulton

The architecture of a life: an iconography of architectural images in Oxford University College MS 165
Heidi Stoner

A change of clothes on the Morgan Leaf: the Apocrypha Master’s illustration of the transition of Saul
Harry Stirrup

In time, out of time: two case studies of recycled evangelist pictures
Carol Farr

Crying over the evangelists: compunction in the Insular world
N.G. Baker

Something more than ‘man’: re-examining the human figure in early Anglo-Saxon art
Melissa Herman

Observations on the changing Middle Ages
Colum Hourihane

The archaeology of transition: rethinking medieval material culture and social change
Aleksandra McClain

Ethnic identities in transition: domestic and social practice in later medieval Córdoba, Spaine
D.A. Lenton

Becoming Christian, being Christian in early medieval Europe
Neil Christie

‘Hail the conquering hero’: coming and going at Ruthwell: adventus and transition
Jane Hawkes

St Everilda: evidence for a saint’s cult in transition
Philippa Turner

Relics and riches: familiarizing the unknown in a fourteenth-century pilgrimage account from Ireland
Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton

Ends of empire and the earth: themes of transition and the Orkney Islands from antiquity to Bede
Diarmuid Scully

When is a hroc not a hroc? When it is a crawe or a hrefn! A case-study in recovering Old English folk-taxonomies
Eric Lacey

Settlements in transition: where are the wīcs in Old English poetry?
Michael D.J. Bintley

The aesthetics of transition on the Franks Casket
Victoria Symons

Transitions of authority: the Joseph cycle in the sculpture series of Salisbury Cathedral Chapter House
Zoë Dumelow

Embroidered stones: considering the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon skeuomorphs and the Kirkdale grave-slab
Meg Boulton

The architecture of a life: an iconography of architectural images in Oxford University College MS 165
Heidi Stoner

A change of clothes on the Morgan Leaf: the Apocrypha Master’s illustration of the transition of Saul
Harry Stirrup

In time, out of time: two case studies of recycled evangelist pictures
Carol Farr

Crying over the evangelists: compunction in the Insular world
N.G. Baker

Something more than ‘man’: re-examining the human figure in early Anglo-Saxon art
Melissa Herman