CROSS AND CULTURE IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
CROSS AND CULTURE IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
STUDIES IN HONOR OF GEORGE HARDIN BROWN
As Volume One in the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series, this collection of new research offers fascinating glimpses into how the way the cross, the central image of Christianity in the Anglo-Saxon period, was textualized, reified, visualized, and performed. The cross in early medieval England was so ubiquitous it became invisible to the modern eye, and yet it played an innovative role in Anglo-Saxon culture, medicine, and popular practice. It represented one of the most powerful relics, emblems, and images in medieval culture because it could be duplicated in many forms and was accessible to every layer of society. The volume speaks to critical issues of cultural interpretation for Anglo-Saxonists, medievalists of all disciplines, and those interested in cultural studies in general.
Karen Louise Jolly, University of Hawai'i at Ma¯noa
Catherine E. Karkov, University of Leeds
Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University Dedication: George Hardin Brown
Rosmary Cramp, Durham University Reading and Speaking the Cross •Bede and the Cross
George Hardin Brown, Stanford University
•Preaching the Cross: Texts and Contexts from the Benedictine Reform
Joyce Hill, University of Leeds
•At Cross Purposes: Six Riddles in the Exeter Books
Jill Frederick, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
The Cross as Image and Artifact •In Hoc Signo: The Cross on Secular Objects and the Process of Conversion
Carol Neuman de Veguar, Ohio Wesleyan University
•The Cross in the Grave: Design or Devine?
Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Win Stephens, University of Manchester
•A Chip Off the RoodL The Cross on Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage
Anna Gannon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University
•Crosses and Conversion: The Iconography of the Coinage of Viking York ca. 900
Mark Blackburn, Fitzwilliam Museeum, Cambridge
Performing the Cross •The Performance of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University
•Hallowing the Rood: Anglo-Saxon Rites for Consecrating Crosses
Helen Gittos, University of Kent
•Prayers and/or Charms Addressed to the Cross
R.M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
•Reading the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
William Schipper, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland
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