Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Recutting the Cross: The Anglo-Saxon Baptismal Font at Wilne
- 2 The Fountain Sealed Up in the Garden Enclosed: A Vine Scroll at Kells
- 3 The Art of the Church in Ninth-Century Anglo- Saxon England: The Case of the Newent Cross
- 4 ‘The Stones of the Wall Will Cry Out’: Lithic Emissaries and Marble Messengers in Andreas
- 5 Conversion, Ritual, and Landscape: Streoneshalh (Whitby), Osingadun, and the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Street House, North Yorkshire
- 6 Outside the Box: Relics and Reliquaries at the Shrine of St Cuthbert in the Later Middle Ages
- 7 An Unusual Hell Mouth in an Old Testament Illustration: Understanding the Numbers Initial in the Twelfth-Century Laud Bible
- 8 The Problem of Man: Carved from the Same Stone
- 9 Glass Beads: Production and Decorative Motifs
- 10 Unmasking Meaning: Faces Hidden and Revealed in Early Anglo-Saxon England
- 11 Alcuin, Mathematics and the Rational Mind
- 12 Looking Down from the Rothbury Cross: (Re)Viewing the Place of Anglo-Saxon Art
- Bibliography of Jane Hawkes’ Writings
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- ALREADY PUBLISHED
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Recutting the Cross: The Anglo-Saxon Baptismal Font at Wilne
- 2 The Fountain Sealed Up in the Garden Enclosed: A Vine Scroll at Kells
- 3 The Art of the Church in Ninth-Century Anglo- Saxon England: The Case of the Newent Cross
- 4 ‘The Stones of the Wall Will Cry Out’: Lithic Emissaries and Marble Messengers in Andreas
- 5 Conversion, Ritual, and Landscape: Streoneshalh (Whitby), Osingadun, and the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Street House, North Yorkshire
- 6 Outside the Box: Relics and Reliquaries at the Shrine of St Cuthbert in the Later Middle Ages
- 7 An Unusual Hell Mouth in an Old Testament Illustration: Understanding the Numbers Initial in the Twelfth-Century Laud Bible
- 8 The Problem of Man: Carved from the Same Stone
- 9 Glass Beads: Production and Decorative Motifs
- 10 Unmasking Meaning: Faces Hidden and Revealed in Early Anglo-Saxon England
- 11 Alcuin, Mathematics and the Rational Mind
- 12 Looking Down from the Rothbury Cross: (Re)Viewing the Place of Anglo-Saxon Art
- Bibliography of Jane Hawkes’ Writings
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- ALREADY PUBLISHED
Summary
This volume has its origins in a symposium honouring Professor Jane Hawkes’ contribution to early medieval studies, acknowledging her research and celebrating the scholarly legacy she has created through her teaching practice and her pedagogical relationships with (and mentoring of) emerging and early-career scholars, several of whom went on to contribute to this volume in its published form. This is, in some ways, an unconventional tribute. Jane, however, is a fairly unconventional figure (wonderfully so), and we are sure she will forgive the liberties taken by the emerging and early-career scholars who are brought together here to mark her engagement with the field and celebrate her achievements.
Jane's career and academic output have been particularly noteworthy and wide-ranging, addressing Old English literature, archaeology, iconography, stone sculpture, exegesis, the institutional, cultural, and material identities of Rome and stone, cultural transfer between East and West, eschatology, the role of imagery in the medieval period and subsequent medievalisms, and materiality and modes of viewing, as well as the iconography-based art history for which she is perhaps best known. She has devoted her scholarly career to the study of Anglo-Saxon stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts in depth and detail, shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments of early medieval England for members of the academy and public alike. This lithic corpus, initially addressed through antiquarian studies and archaeological approaches, remains somewhat under-represented in art-historical scholarship even today, but the fact that it is studied in these terms at all owes much to Jane, who was one of the first scholars to address these monuments and sculpted fragments from an interdisciplinary, art-historical, and predominantly iconographical standpoint. This art-historical emphasis changed the way these objects were viewed and understood by students, peers, and scholars – and her work revolutionised the study of Anglo-Saxon stone. Indeed, from her doctoral thesis on ‘The Non-Crucifixion Iconography of the Pre-Viking Sculpture of the North of England’, funded by the British Academy and awarded by Newcastle University in 1989, to her more recent publications on the relationships between icons and Anglo-Saxon sculpture – such as her 2013 piece ‘Stones of the North: Sculpture in Northumbria in the “Age of Bede”’ – her research has remained at the very forefront of Anglo-Saxon Studies.
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- Insular IconographiesEssays in Honour of Jane Hawkes, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019