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Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World
Jane Hawkes
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Description for Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World
Hardback. Major new, interdisciplinary perspectives on the material culture, language and literature of the Viking and medieval worlds Editor(s): Hawkes, Jane; Cambridge, Eric. Num Pages: 320 pages, b/w and colour. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 215. .
Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most ... Read more
Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785703072
SKU
V9781785703072
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About Jane Hawkes
Eric Cambridge is an independent scholar specialising in medieval material culture, particularly architectural and art history. Jane Hawkes is Professor of Medieval Art History and the University of York, with a special interest in the iconography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. She is currently working on the historiography of Insular sculpture, with particular reference to antiquarian and medievalist interpretations, textual and visual. ... Read more
Reviews for Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World
The collection is stimulating and thought-provoking, and undoubtedly some of the more substantial contributions will prove to be seminal. In its totality, the collection contributes in depth and breadth to the refining of our understanding of the early medieval world. One can only hope that its methodology will prove inspirational to an even wider field.
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