'For weeks after his Christian baptism and confirmation into the
Church of England Martin presented a vivid sight as he walked
briskly along the Oxford streets. Dressed in white trousers and
white open neck shirt (no jersey or jacket in even the coldest
weather) and long white hair, it was a striking statement of a new
life that would easily have been recognised by those early
Christians who were clothed in white robes after their baptism in
font or riverMartin is especially well placed, by virtue of his
long-standing academic interests and his personal convictions, to
build a picture of Christianity in Roman Britain. He has, after
all, written about many of the crucial pieces of evidence. He can
give us a clear and comprehensive survey of art in the age of
Constantine. He can also identify and trace the difference that
Christianity made to that art. Religion in the Roman world was
highly diverse, but there were elements within it which lent
themselves to a later, Christian interpretation, such as the myth
of Bellerophon and the Chimera. There was also an implicit longing
as expressed in Sol Invictus, which found its fulfillment in Christ
the unconquered victor over sin and death, the sun which will never
set. The classical heritage of myth and story was part of the
education of a Roman gentlemen, the paidea, even when the empire
became Christian, but a Christian could see in at least some of it
a pointer and foreshadowing of Christ. Martin is able to see it in
this way too. There are some in the modern world who like to stress
the great gulf, the sharp difference between Christianity and other
faiths. Martin shows that for the church in the fourth century the
continuities and fulfillments were just as important. The 44-page
bibliography of his writings is substantial evidence to the range
and depth of Martin's work: a scholar's scholar indeed. So I feel
specially honoured to have been invited to write this short preface
to these essays honouring him.' (Richard Harries, former Bishop of
Oxford). Contents: R. Bradley: Roman Interpretations of the
Prehistoric Past; M. Aldhouse-Green: Monsters on the Rocks:
Iconography of Transformation at Camonica Valley; E. Sauer: Native
deities in southern Germany in the Roman period; C. Clay: Before
there were Angles, Saxons and Jutes: an epigraphic study of the
Germanic social, religious and linguistic relations on Hadrian's
Wall; A. B. Marsden: Some sing of Alexander and some of Hercules:
artistic echoes of Hercules and Alexander the Great on coins and
medallions, A.D. 260-269; J. Boardman: Roman Gems: Problems of Date
and Identity; J. Bagnall Smith: Four Miniature Swords from Harlow
and others known from Roman Britain; V. Platt Burning Butterflies:
Seals, Symbols and the Soul in Antiquity; L. Gilmour: The Face of
an Angel; M. Darling: A Depiction of the Organ from Roman Britain;
C. Johns; The Wroxeter Isis gem: an update; C. Thomas A curious
piece of Granite; D. M. Bailey: A Collar for a God: an
Egyptianising scene on a fragment of Roman cameo glass; C.
Sparey-Green: Foot Impressions on a House Floor in Dorchester: a
Divine Presence in Durnovaria?; K. Sutton and S. Worrell: Roman
religious objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in
Oxfordshire and elsewhere; A. Cruse: Dioscorides of Anazarbus (fl .
A.D. 70): from Mithridates to the Middle Ages; R. Isserlin: Some
leaves from the invisible archive; G. Seidmann: Greville Chester? -
Who was he?; D. Howlett: Continuities from Roman Britain; M. Biddle
and B. Kjbye-Biddle: Winchester: from Venta to Wintancaestir; J.
Onians: The Romsey roods: Christ, rods, and the geography of
religion; J. Bertram From Duccius to Daubernoun: Ancient
Antecedents of Monumental Brass Design: B. Gilmour Sub-Roman or
Saxon, Pagan or Christian: who was buried in the early cemetery at
St. Paul-in-the-Bail, Lincoln?; M. J. Florence: 'Le Conte du Graal'
by Chretien de Troyes; G. Soffe: The Romanesque Font at
Portchester; J. Blair: The 13th-century seal-matrix of Henley rural
deanery; S. Watney: The Lily-Crucifi xion in Late Medieval English
Art; K. Heard: Image and Identity in English Episcopal Seals,
1450-1550; M. Vickers: Saints Martin of Tours and Thomas of
Canterbury in Urbino; L. Keen: Christ Crucified, Christ Risen:
medieval ceramic tiles; L. Golden: A fantasia of Pagan myth in the
Villa Farnesina: Agostino Chigi's homage to his lover, Imperia; A.
MacGregor: The Cult of Master John Shorne; M. Campbell: An eagle
lectern of the Gothic Revival at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford;
J. Munby: Two Oxford Engravings: Archaeology and the University in
the 18th century; N. Ramsay: An English Monastic Profession-Vow; J.
M. Steane: Chests, Cupboards and Boxes: a study of some of the
methods used by Magdalen College, Oxford to store and retrieve
information in the Late Medieval Period; C. Finn A Roman
Pilgrimage.
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