medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim Bugslag wrote:
>
> Dear Bill,
> Perhaps you could tempt some of us into reading it by giving a short
> description of what it's about.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
That's probably the publisher's job:
http://www.bl.uk/acatalog/Catalogue_ISBN_0712348751_44.html
Ritual and the Rood - Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the
Dream of the Rood Tradition
The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture
Author(s): Ó Carragáin, Éamonn
This book deals with four of the most important surviving artifacts from
Anglo-Saxon England, namely the elaborate eighth-century stone cross still
standing at Ruthwell, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland; the related cross-shaft at
Bewcastle; the majestic and hypnotizing Dream of the Rood, a poem surviving
in a late tenth-century manuscript now in Vercelli, North Italy; and the
early eleventh-century metal reliquary cross now preserved in the Cathedral
of Saints Michael and Gudule in Brussels, Belgium. In bringing together
these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon
artistic achievement across several centuries, Eamonn Ó Carragáin has
produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history. The book
ranges freely between disciplines, and combines aspects of liturgical,
literary, historical, and art-historical scholarship. The chief distinction
of this book lies in its profound grounding in liturgical practices, and its
detailed demonstration that even in the far North of (then) Anglo-Saxon
England, people were deeply influenced by the latest developments in liturgy
taking place in Rome. The book brings a new dimension to our understanding
of the Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses, especially of the interaction between
their texts and their iconography, and argues for the existence of a
brilliantly original English vernacular poetic tradition recounting the
heroic death of Christ.
Publisher: British Library Publishing
ISBN: 0712348751; 320 pages, 20 colour and 100 b/w illustrations, 246 x 176
mm, hardback, 2005.
Price: £50.00
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