Conversion And Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England

by Catherine E. Karkov (Editor), Nicholas Howe (Editor)

Contents:
Introduction / Nicholas Howe and Catherine E. Karkov --
From British to English Christianity : deconstructing Bede's interpretation of the conversion / Nicholas Brooks --
High style and borrowed finery : the strood mount, the long --
Wittenham stoup, and the Boss Hall brooch as complex responses to continental visual culture / Carol Neuman de Vegvar --
Changing faces : leprosy in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee --
A map of the universe : geography and cosmology in the program of Alfred the great / Nicole Guenther Discenza --
"Old names of kings or shadows" : reading documentary lists / Jacqueline Stodnick --
Colonization and conversion in Cynewulf's Elene / Heide Estes --
Making women visible : an adaptation of the regularis concordia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 201 / Joyce Hill --
Architectural metaphors and christological imagery in the advent lyrics : Benedictine propaganda in the Exeter Book? / Mercedes Salvador --
End time and the date of Voluspá : two models of conversion / Richard North.

Genres: History

247 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

Catherine Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, and she has published two monographs, one on Anglo-Saxon art, and one on the relation between text and image in Anglo-Saxon literature. In the latter, whose focus is on MS Junius 11, she argues that a complete edition of the manuscript leaves out the many illustrations at its own peril; these illustrations occur at dramatic moments in the four poems and help elucidate the allegorical import of many passages.