How did the Anglo-Saxons visualize the world that they inhabited? How did their artwork and iconography help to confirm their identity as a people? What influences shaped their visual imagination?
This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the role of visuality in the production of culture. Jewels, weapons, crosses, coins, and other artifacts; descriptive passages in literature; types of script; deluxe illuminated manuscripts; and runes and other written inscriptions, whether real or imagined?-?all receive scrutiny in this collection of new essays. Noteworthy for its interdisciplinary scope, the volume features arresting work by experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, linguistics, numismatics, and manuscript studies. The volume as a whole demonstrates the power of current scholarship to cast light on the visual imagination of the past.
| ISBN: | 9780866985123 |
| Publication date: | 14th February 2023 |
| Author: | International Society of AngloSaxonists |
| Publisher: | ACMRS Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval European history |
How did the Anglo-Saxons visualize the world that they inhabited? How did their artwork and iconography help to confirm their identity as a people? What influences shaped their visual imagination?
This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the role of visuality in the production of culture. Jewels, weapons, crosses, coins, and other artifacts; descriptive passages in literature; types of script; deluxe illuminated manuscripts; and runes and other written inscriptions, whether real or imagined?-?all receive scrutiny in this collection of new essays. Noteworthy for its interdisciplinary scope, the volume features arresting work by experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, linguistics, numismatics, and manuscript studies. The volume as a whole demonstrates the power of current scholarship to cast light on the visual imagination of the past.
Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination features in the following genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, European history
Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination is available in Hardback
Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination was written by International Society of AngloSaxonists and published by ACMRS Press
Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination has 336 pages
Yes it is part of Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series