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Listen, O Isles, Unto Me - Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O'Reilly (Hardcover)
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Listen, O Isles, Unto Me - Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O'Reilly (Hardcover)
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This interdisciplinary collection sets the cultural transformation
of early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the context of
its inheritance from Late Antiquity and engagement with the wider
Medieval world. Honoring the work of Jennifer O Reilly, this
exciting volume brings together new research on a range of
patristic and medieval texts and visual materials. It testifies to
the imaginative ways in which scholars and artists in these islands
assimilated and creatively re-interpreted the Christian and
Mediterranean culture they encountered through the coming of
Christianity.The book is divided into three sections. The first
section, "Inheritance and Transmission," sets the scene with
contributions examining the interplay of Classical and Christian
"topoi" in Late Antique texts; continental commentators
appropriation of patristic ideas both directly and through Irish
and Anglo-Saxon intermediaries; the representation of Ireland in
English and Continental sources. The second section, "Monasticism
in the Age of Bede," focuses initially on Bede as heresiologist,
exegete, martyrologist and historian, addressing issues that
include the cult of saints, reform, and the representation of
women. These themes are continued in the section s other papers;
views of conception and birth, the cult of St Gregory the Great,
and the understanding of scripture in Adomnan s Life of Columba.
The third section, "Exegesis and the Language of Pictures,"
explores the visual representation of scriptural exegesis in
Insular sculpture and illuminated manuscripts. A number of papers
survey the iconography of secular portrait figures, damnation, the
beard, and the representation of cherubim and seraphim. Others
consider the meaning and symbolism of particular Insular artworks
such as the Ruthwell cross, the Book of Kells and Boulogne MS 10."
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