Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Brian W. Schneider

The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles.

Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Charles Insley

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).

Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text

Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture

Robin Netherton

This latest volume examining aspects of clothing and textiles in the middle ages ranges widely throughout both Europe and England. It includes two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are are two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by a cloistered mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garments worn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg Cathedral. The mercantile world of clothing in medieval London (dealers of secondhand clothing from the evidence of historical documents the representation of the socially-rising mercers in literature is the focus of another two pieces); other articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production. Contributors: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne, Valerie L. Garver, Christine Sciacca, Sarah L. Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate Kelsey Staples, Charlotte A. Stanford.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Monica L. Wright

A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society.

A vivid and detailed reconstruction of the costume worn in England before the arrival of the Norman conquerers.

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

Essays on the brief but tumultuous reign of Harold II, and one of our most important sources of knowledge of the time - the Bayeux Tapestry.

King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Maren Clegg Hyer

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

A Tribute to Robin Netherton

Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress

Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

"It is well known that the Old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes a third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence. A detailed analysis of the four funerals establishes their thematic and structural importance, revealing them as pillars around which the poem is built. The port is shown to be a literate antiquarian of considerable structural skill; one who explores feminist issues, plays with numbers and enjoys a pun; who establishes an ideal then probes its darker side." "This book will be invaluable to all students of the poem for its fresh and detailed reading, its identification of a coherent structure and its establishment of the integrity of the surviving text."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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