Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the
Memory of Timothy Reuter is edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen
Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov and is the third and final
volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned
with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form
cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of
academic disciplines - history, archaeology, art history,
literature, philosophy, and religion - providing vital insights
into how symbols function within society. The flexibility,
portability, and adaptability of the Anglo-Saxon understanding of
the cross suggest that, in pre-Conquest England, at least, the
linking of word, image, and performance joined the physical and
spiritual, the temporal and eternal, and the earthly and heavenly
in the Anglo-Saxon imaginative landscape. This volume is divided
into three sections. The first section of the collection focuses on
representations of ""The Cross: Image and Emblem,"" with
contributions by Michelle P. Brown, David A. E. Pelteret, and
Catherine E. Karkov. The second section, ""The Cross: Meaning and
Word,"" deals in semantics and semeology with essays by Helen
Damico, Rolf Bremmer, and Ursula Lenker. The third section of the
book, ""The Cross: Gesture and Structure,"" employs methodologies
drawn from archaeology, new media, and theories of rulership to
develop new insights into subjects as varied as cereal production,
the little-known Nunburnholme Cross, and early medieval concepts of
political power. Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World:
Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is a major collection
of new research, completing the publication series of the Sancta
Crux/Halig Rod project. Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England:
Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown.
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