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Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture
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Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse.
Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.
Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.
Megan Henvey, Department of History of Art, University of York completed her Ph.D. in 2021 on the historical, historiographical, iconographic, and theological and liturgical contexts of the ‘Northern/Ulster’ Group of Irish High crosses.
Amanda Doviak, Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2021-22, University of York, completed her Ph.D. on the figural iconographies of Viking-age stone crosses in northern England in 2021. Her research interests include artistic exchanges and their intersections with early medieval liturgical developments.
Professor Jane Hawkes, Art History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, works on the cross-cultural contexts of the early medieval art of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the sculptural arts and their historiography.
Amanda Doviak, Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2021-22, University of York, completed her Ph.D. on the figural iconographies of Viking-age stone crosses in northern England in 2021. Her research interests include artistic exchanges and their intersections with early medieval liturgical developments.
Professor Jane Hawkes, Art History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, works on the cross-cultural contexts of the early medieval art of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the sculptural arts and their historiography.
Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak
1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture
Matthias Friedrich
2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England
Rachael Vause
3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’
Jane Hawkes
4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland
Megan Henvey
5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis
Ross McIntire
6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross
Amanda Doviak
7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins
Cher Casey
8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century
Nino Simonishvili
9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne
John Mitchell
10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral
Elisa A. Foster
11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom
Lesley Milner
12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts
Aideen M. Ireland
13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
Edel Bhreathnach
14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation
Alison Elizabeth Killilea
15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism
Tarren Andrews
16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906
Katherine Cross
Index
List of Plates
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak
Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World
1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture
Matthias Friedrich
2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England
Rachael Vause
3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’
Jane Hawkes
4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland
Megan Henvey
5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis
Ross McIntire
Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World
6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross
Amanda Doviak
7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins
Cher Casey
8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century
Nino Simonishvili
9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne
John Mitchell
10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral
Elisa A. Foster
11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom
Lesley Milner
Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms
12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts
Aideen M. Ireland
13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
Edel Bhreathnach
14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation
Alison Elizabeth Killilea
15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism
Tarren Andrews
16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906
Katherine Cross
Index
Those interested in the varied aspects of the medieval world (textual, visual, conceptual), as well as those specialising in the subjects such as university scholars, students and researchers.