Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1785704974 ISBN 13: 9781785704970

Casa editrice: Oxbow Books Ltd, 2017

Riassunto

The five authoritative papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artifacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history and art; ecclesiastical-historical circumstances explain the adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended into the making of new books with multiple functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes in burial ritual. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances. The papers originated as five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxbow Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1785704974
• ISBN 13: 9781785704970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 136
• Redattore: Insley Charles, Owen-Crocker Gale R.
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