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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.

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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.
Publication
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Jolly, Karen Louise.
  • Karkov, Catherine E., 1956-
  • Keefer, Sarah Larratt.
  • Brown, George Hardin, 1931-
Description
x, 356 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
Series Statement
  • Medieval European studies ; 9
  • Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series ; v. 1
Uniform Title
  • Medieval European studies ; 9.
  • Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series ; v. 1.
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Crosses > England > History > To 1500 > Congresses
  • Crosses > History > England > 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
Genre/Form
  • Festschriften.
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Mélanges (Recueils)
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "The 2001 'Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England' seminar in Durham, on which this book is based."--P. 4.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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 -- Cross in the grave : design or divine? / Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Win Stephens -- 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 -- 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.
ISBN
  • 1933202238
  • 9781933202235
OCLC
  • 145554763
  • SCSB-11142627
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library