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Cross and culture in Anglo-Saxon England : studies in honor of George Hardin Brown / edited by Karen Louise Jolly, Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer.

Contributor(s): Jolly, Karen Louise | Karkov, Catherine E, 1956- | Keefer, Sarah Larratt
Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval European studies: 9.; Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series: v. 1.Publisher: Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First editionDescription: x, 356 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781933202235 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1933202238 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Crosses -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Crosses -- Cult -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Anglo-Saxons -- Religion -- Congresses | Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- Congresses | Crosses in literature -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Crosses in numismatics -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Brown, George Hardin, 1931-LOC classification: BV160 | .C76 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Karen Louise Jolly, Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Dedication : George Hardin Brown / Rosemary Cramp -- Bede and the cross / George Hardin Brown -- Preaching the cross : texts and contexts from the Benedictine Reform / Joyce Hill -- At cross purposes : six riddles in the Exeter books / Jill Frederick -- In hoc signo : the cross on secular objects and the process of conversion / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- The cross in the grave : design or divine? / Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Win Stephens -- A chip off the rood : the cross on early Anglo-Saxon coinage / Anna Gannon -- Crosses and conversion : the iconography of the coinage of Viking York ca. 900 / Mark Blackburn -- The performance of the cross in Anglo-Saxon England / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Hallowing the rood : Anglo-Saxon rites for consecrating crosses / Helen Gittos -- Prayers and/or charms addressed to the cross / R.M. Liuzza -- Reading the cross in Anglo-Saxon England / William Schipper.

Volume based on the 2001 'Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England' seminar held in Durham, England.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Karen Louise Jolly, Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Dedication : George Hardin Brown / Rosemary Cramp -- Bede and the cross / George Hardin Brown -- Preaching the cross : texts and contexts from the Benedictine Reform / Joyce Hill -- At cross purposes : six riddles in the Exeter books / Jill Frederick -- In hoc signo : the cross on secular objects and the process of conversion / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- The cross in the grave : design or divine? / Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Win Stephens -- A chip off the rood : the cross on early Anglo-Saxon coinage / Anna Gannon -- Crosses and conversion : the iconography of the coinage of Viking York ca. 900 / Mark Blackburn -- The performance of the cross in Anglo-Saxon England / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Hallowing the rood : Anglo-Saxon rites for consecrating crosses / Helen Gittos -- Prayers and/or charms addressed to the cross / R.M. Liuzza -- Reading the cross in Anglo-Saxon England / William Schipper.

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