The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking the Rood - Philippa Turner
Approaching the Cross: The Sculpted High Crosses of Anglo-Saxon England - Jane Hawkes
The Mark of Christ in Wood, Grass and Field: Open-Air Roods in Old English Medical Remedies - Kate Thomas
Twelfth-Century English Rood Visions: Some Iconographic Notes - John Munns
Crosses, Croziers, and the Crucifixion: Twelfth-Century Crosses in Ireland - Maggie Williams
From Religious Artefacts to Symbols of Identity: The Role of Stone Crosses in Galician National Discourse - Sara Carreño
The Rood in the Late Medieval English Cathedral: The Black Rood of Scotland Reassessed - Philippa Turner
The Cross of Death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan Ideologies in Late Medieval Ireland - Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D'Aughton
Heralding the Rood: Colour Convention and Material Hierarchies on Late Medieval English - Lucy Wrapson
Reframing the Rood: Fifteenth-Century Angel Roofs and the Rood in East Anglia - Sarah Cassell

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Philippa Turner, Jane Hawkes

Summary

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Hawkes, John Munns, Kate Thomas, Philippa Turner, Lucy Wrapson
• Assisted by: Jane Hawkes (Editor), Philippa Turner (Editor), Philippa (Author) Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781783275526
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-552-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 247 mm x 176 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 792 g
• Illustrations: 14 colour, 48 b/w illus.
• Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture; Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history