Transformation in Anglo-Saxon culture : Toller lectures on art, archaeology and text / edited by Charles Insley and Gale R. Owen-Crocker.

• Introduction / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- A new chronology and new agenda : the problematic sixth century / John Hines -- Anglo-Saxon art : tradition and transformation / Leslie Webster -- King Alfred and Weland : tradition and transformation at the court of King Alfred / Barbara Yorke -- Strategies of visual literacy in insular and Anglo-Saxon book culture / Michelle P. Brown -- The Vercelli book as a context for the Dream of the Rood / Éamonn Carragáin.

• "The five authoritive 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 artefacts 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)"--Publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Anglosaxare  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Fornlämningar  (sao)

Kulturell förändring  (sao)

Fornengelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Art, Anglo-Saxon.  (LCSH)

Anglo-Saxons  -- Social life and customs. (LCSH)

Anglo-Saxons  -- Antiquities. (LCSH)

Anglo-Saxons  -- History -- Sources. (LCSH)

English literature  -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Social change  -- England -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Anglo-Saxons.  (fast)

Art, Anglo-Saxon.  (fast)

Civilization.  (fast)

Social change.  (fast)

Angelsachsen  (gnd)

Kunst  (gnd)

Kultur  (gnd)

Anglo-Saxons  -- Antiquities. (fast)

Anglo-Saxons  -- Social life and customs. (fast)

English literature  -- Old English. (fast)

Anglo-Saxons  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Antiquities  (LCSH)

Social change  (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

England  -- Civilization -- To 1066. (LCSH)

Great Britain  -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. (LCSH)

England.  (fast)

Great Britain.  (fast)

To 1500  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Sources.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ke.2 Historia: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien): före 1066

Ke.3 Historia: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien): medeltiden 1066-1485

Klassifikation

942.01 (DDC)

Ke.2 (kssb/8)

Ke.3 (kssb/8)