ISAS Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies, Vol. 2

Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England

Edited by Catherine E. Karkov and Nicholas Howe
2006 | 247 + xx pp. | 25 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-363-1 | MRTS 318
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Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England is a collection of ten essays by acknowledged experts in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. Papers range in scope from the conversion of the English to Christianity, to the expansion of Anglo-Saxon culture beyond the British Isles; and from early Anglo-Saxon burial goods to the evidence for and treatment of disease. As the essays in this book show, conversion and colonization in the England of the Anglo-Saxon period were often localized phenomena that registered themselves at different moments, in different places, and in different forms of cultural production.

Table of Contents

  • Catherine E. Karkov and Nicholas Howe: Introduction

  • Nicholas Brooks: From British to English Christianity: Deconstructing Bede’s Interpretation of the Conversion

  • Carol Neuman de Vegvar: High Style and Borrowed Finery: The Strood Mount, the Long Wittenham Stoup, and the Boss Hall Brooch as Complex Responses to Continental Visual Culture

  • Christina Lee: Changing Faces: Leprosy in Anglo-Saxon England

  • Nicole Guenther Discenza: A Map of the Universe: Geography and Cosmology in the Program of Alfred the Great

  • Jacqueline Stodnick: “Old Names of Kings or Shadows”: Reading Documentary Lists

  • Heide Estes: Colonization and Conversion in Cynewulf’s Elene

  • Joyce Hill: Making Women Visible: An Adaptation of the Regularis Concordia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 201

  • Mercedes Salvador: Architectural Metaphors and Christological Imagery in the Advent Lyrics: Benedictine Propaganda in the Exeter Book?

  • Richard North: End Time and the Date of V˛oluspá: Two Models of Conversion