Publication

2016 - Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781783270736
  • ISBN-10178327073X
  • OCLC Control Number920542473
  • Better World Books9781783270736
  • Open LibraryOL28583731M

Classifications

  • LCCNK8943
  • LCCGT575 .T49 2016

Description

The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts, and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and intertextual relationships between text and textile.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Textiles, Text, Intertext: Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-CrockerBoydell & Brewer, Incorporated2016-01-01

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