| Abstract: |
The essays deal with literary, historical, and art historical topics as well as archaeology. The following are selected for mention here: Patrick Wormald (151-83), 'Celtic and Anglo-Saxon kingship: some further thoughts'; Rosemary Cramp (185-201), 'Northumbria and Ireland' (on the manner in which the Irish and Anglo-Saxons supported their craftsmen, the interchange of fine pieces on an east-west - and north-south -axis, and the role of the monasteries like Jarrow); Signe Horn Fuglesang (203-41), 'The relationship between Scandinavian and English art from the late 8th to the mid-12th century' (tracing the assimilation of Borre and Jellinge styles into vigorous hybrids like the hogbacks, and noting periods when the influences were reciprocal); James Lang (243-60), 'The distinctiveness of Viking colonial art' (the recognition of gridded layouts calls for a fresh and close look at artefacts on both sides of the North Sea); R Cramp (431-2) describes the project for 'The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture'. Three further papers deal with aspects of The Dream of the Rood in relation to the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses (Sandra McEntire, Robert T Farrell and Éamonn Ó Carragáin respectively). |
