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i forgot to mention that i have a digital copy of this chapter:
CHAPTER VIII
ANGLO-SAXON ART AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST
and would be happy to send it to anyone who wants to write me off-list.
best,
c
Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The fragments are commonly known as the "chasuble" of Sts. H. & R.,
but they really appear to be assembled pieces of some sort of church
furnishing (perhaps an altar frontal). ...The consensus seems to be that the
saints didn't work the embroidery themselves; it's probably contemporary with
them, but it seems to be Anglo-Saxon professional work.
>the fabulous and famous richness of A-S needlework is discussed at some
length in a chapter in C.R. Dodwell's _Anglo-Saxon Art: a New Perspective_
(Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1982. x, 353pp.) devoted to the very
interesting question of "what we have lost" from the once-extant A-S artistic
heritage generally.
> fabric and metalwork suffered the most, apparently, for obvious reasons, and
Dodwell's serious and thorough _pillage_ of the written sources is something
of an eye-opener to this interesting question, as well as being a
methodological paradigm of the first order.
>
> from Dodwell's work, it appears to me that the losses must be placed in the
99.990% range for fabric work, perhaps (conservatively) 50% of illuminated
manuscripts, and, of course, 100% of mural painting.
>
> the implications of this level of "missing links" for such things as
stylistic analysis are quite sobering and difficult to fully comprehend.
>
> best from here,
>
> christopher
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