Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture
of medieval England.
Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval
stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly
contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted
stone monuments of Anglo-Saxon England. This volume builds on her
scholarly interests, offering new engagements with medieval culture and
the current scholarly methodologies that shape the discipline. The
contributors approach several significantobjects and texts from the
early and later Middle Ages, working across several disciplinary
backgrounds and periods, largely focusing on the Insular World as it
intersects with wider global contexts of the period. The chapters cover
a wide range of subjects, from the material culture of baptism, to the
material, symbolic and iconographic consideration of the artistic
outputs of the Insular world, with essays on sculpture, metalwork, glass
and manuscripts, to ideas of stone and salvation in both material and
textual contexts, to intellectual puzzles and patterns - both material
and mathematic - to consideration of the ways in which the conversion to
Christianity played out on the landscape.
MEG BOULTON is Research Affiliate and Visiting Lecturer in the History
of Art Department at the University of York; MICHAEL D.J. BINTLEY is
Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck,
University of London.
Contributors: Elizabeth Alexander, Michael Brennan, Melissa Herman, Mags
Mannion, Thomas Pickles, Harry Stirrup, Heidi Stoner, Colleen Thomas,
Philippa Turner, Carolyn Twomey,
