Stasis in the Medieval West?: Questioning Change and Continuity - Softcover

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Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

1 'Introduction: Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity'

Victoria Symons, Mary Wellesley, Michael D. J. Bintley

2 'Beacons of Belief: Trees and Religion in Britain from Prehistory to the Later Middle Ages'

Michael D. J. Bintley

3 'The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Decorative Continuity in Early Anglo- Saxon England'

Melissa Herman

4 'Art History in the Dark Ages: (Re)considering Space, Stasis and Modern Viewing Practices in Relation to Anglo-Saxon Imagery'

Meg Boulton

5 'Set in Stone or Food for Worms: the Stasis of Writing in the Exeter Book Riddles'

Victoria Symons

6 'Stitched Up? Cynewulf, Authorial Attribution and Textual Stasis in Anglo-Saxon England'

Tom Birkett

7 'The House of Stilled Time: Stasis and Eternity in Anglo-Saxon Churches'

Michael Shapland

8 'There and Back Again: Creating the Pilgrimage Experience in Text'

Martin Locker

9 '"But that will not be the end of the calamity": Why Emphasize Viking Disruption?'

Katherine Cross

10 'Configuring Stasis: the Appeal to Tradition in the English Reign of Cnut the Great'

Simon C. Thomson

11 'Sleeping Dogs and Stasis in the Franklin's Tale'

Richard North

12 'Static "Menyng" and Transitory "Melodye" in Lydgate's Seying of the Nightingale'

Mary Wellesley

13 'Dress, Fashion and Anti-Fashion in the Medieval Imagination'

Louise Sylvester

Index

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