Art and worship in the insular world : : papers in honour of Elizabeth Coatsworth / / edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Maren Clegg Hyer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Owen-Crocker, Gale R.,; Hyer, Maren Clegg,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

A monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop's ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book. In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece -- Preliminary material -- Copyright page -- Foreword / Rosemary Cramp -- Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction / Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer -- Chapter 1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics, and Diverse Hairstyles / Donncha MacGabhann -- Chapter 2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts / Christina Lee -- Chapter 3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Chapter 4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England / Maren Clegg Hyer -- Chapter 5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild's Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey / Penelope Walton Rogers -- Chapter 6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries / Frances Pritchard -- Chapter 7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography / Alexandra Lester-Makin -- Chapter 8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture / Jane Hawkes -- Chapter 9 The Thread of Ornament / Catherine E. Karkov -- Chapter 10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire / David A. Hinton -- Chapter 11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005-2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition / Éamonn Ó Carragáin -- Chapter 12 Bishop Acca's Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction? / Richard N. Bailey -- Chapter 13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised / Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Bible References -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.